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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 0 0
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 0 0
Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. Christina Aguilera American Musician More Christina Aguilera Quotes 0 0
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead. Conrad Aiken American Author More Conrad Aiken Quotes 0 0
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Sebastian Bach Canadian Musician More Sebastian Bach Quotes 0 0
Metal is still the biggest music now in America. Sebastian Bach Canadian Musician More Sebastian Bach Quotes 0 0
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
I love putting the music together. It's like art. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
Music and the music business are two different things. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. Erykah Badu American Musician More Erykah Badu Quotes 0 0
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. Chris Barber English Musician More Chris Barber Quotes 0 0
And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach. Travis Barker American Musician More Travis Barker Quotes 0 0
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. Travis Barker American Musician More Travis Barker Quotes 0 0
My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. Travis Barker American Musician More Travis Barker Quotes 0 0
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. Travis Barker American Musician More Travis Barker Quotes 0 0
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. Maria Callas American Musician More Maria Callas Quotes 0 0
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote American Novelist More Truman Capote Quotes 0 0
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote American Novelist More Truman Capote Quotes 0 0
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life. Mariah Carey Musician More Mariah Carey Quotes 0 0
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. Thomas Carlyle Scottish Philosopher More Thomas Carlyle Quotes 0 0
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. Robert Caro American Writer More Robert Caro Quotes 0 0
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that. Dick Dale American Musician More Dick Dale Quotes 0 0
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. Dick Dale American Musician More Dick Dale Quotes 0 0
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. George Eliot British Author More George Eliot Quotes 0 0
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. Duke Ellington American Musician More Duke Ellington Quotes 0 0
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. Eminem American Musician More Eminem Quotes 0 0
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. Eminem American Musician More Eminem Quotes 0 0
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it! Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. Brian Eno British Musician More Brian Eno Quotes 0 0
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine American Poet More John Erskine Quotes 0 0
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. Bryan Ferry English Musician More Bryan Ferry Quotes 0 0
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. Bryan Ferry English Musician More Bryan Ferry Quotes 0 0
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Bryan Ferry English Musician More Bryan Ferry Quotes 0 0
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0 0
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. Renee Fleming American Musician More Renee Fleming Quotes 0 0
What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. Kenny G American Musician More Kenny G Quotes 0 0
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. Jerry Garcia American Musician More Jerry Garcia Quotes 0 0
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. Jerry Garcia American Musician More Jerry Garcia Quotes 0 0
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. Lesley Garrett English Musician More Lesley Garrett Quotes 0 0
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music. Robin Gibb English Musician More Robin Gibb Quotes 0 0
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. Robin Gibb English Musician More Robin Gibb Quotes 0 0
Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. Robin Gibb English Musician More Robin Gibb Quotes 0 0
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. Robin Gibb English Musician More Robin Gibb Quotes 0 0
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. Dizzy Gillespie American Musician More Dizzy Gillespie Quotes 0 0
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. Charlie Haden American Musician More Charlie Haden Quotes 0 0
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. Herbie Hancock American Musician More Herbie Hancock Quotes 0 0
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech. Debbie Harry American Musician More Debbie Harry Quotes 0 0
I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it. Janet Jackson American Musician More Janet Jackson Quotes 0 0
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals. Janet Jackson American Musician More Janet Jackson Quotes 0 0
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. Michael Jackson American Singer More Michael Jackson Quotes 0 0
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately. Marc Jacobs American Designer More Marc Jacobs Quotes 0 0
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted. Mick Jagger English Musician More Mick Jagger Quotes 0 0
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. Etta James American Musician More Etta James Quotes 0 0
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. Etta James American Musician More Etta James Quotes 0 0
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us. Joan Jett American Musician More Joan Jett Quotes 0 0
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. Steve Jobs American Businessman More Steve Jobs Quotes 0 0
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. Billy Joel American Musician More Billy Joel Quotes 0 0
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. John Keats English Poet More John Keats Quotes 0 0
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
There is still a future with music, because people want music. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. Maynard James Keenan American Musician More Maynard James Keenan Quotes 0 0
I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me. Alicia Keys American Musician More Alicia Keys Quotes 0 0
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been. Alicia Keys American Musician More Alicia Keys Quotes 0 0
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six. Alicia Keys American Musician More Alicia Keys Quotes 0 0
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. Emeril Lagasse American Celebrity More Emeril Lagasse Quotes 0 0
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving. Emeril Lagasse American Celebrity More Emeril Lagasse Quotes 0 0
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. Karl Lagerfeld German Designer More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes 0 0
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor English Poet More Walter Savage Landor Quotes 0 0
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. Yo-Yo Ma American Musician More Yo-Yo Ma Quotes 0 0
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler Austrian Composer More Gustav Mahler Quotes 0 0
The real art of conducting consists in transitions. Gustav Mahler Austrian Composer More Gustav Mahler Quotes 0 0
Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. Chuck Mangione American Musician More Chuck Mangione Quotes 0 0
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. Aimee Mann American Musician More Aimee Mann Quotes 0 0
Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson American Musician More Marilyn Manson Quotes 0 0
You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. Shirley Manson Scottish Musician More Shirley Manson Quotes 0 0
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. Marcel Marceau French Actor More Marcel Marceau Quotes 0 0
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. Bob Marley Musician More Bob Marley Quotes 0 0
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. Bob Marley Musician More Bob Marley Quotes 0 0
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley Musician More Bob Marley Quotes 0 0
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. Ziggy Marley Musician More Ziggy Marley Quotes 0 0
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. Ziggy Marley Musician More Ziggy Marley Quotes 0 0
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do. Ziggy Marley Musician More Ziggy Marley Quotes 0 0
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner. Ziggy Marley Musician More Ziggy Marley Quotes 0 0
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0 0
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? Willie Nelson American Musician More Willie Nelson Quotes 0 0
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. Willie Nelson American Musician More Willie Nelson Quotes 0 0
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. Bob Newhart American Comedian More Bob Newhart Quotes 0 0
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. Stevie Nicks American Musician More Stevie Nicks Quotes 0 0
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon American President More Richard M. Nixon Quotes 0 0
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' Barack Obama American President More Barack Obama Quotes 0 0
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. Gary Oldman English Actor More Gary Oldman Quotes 0 0
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. Gary Oldman English Actor More Gary Oldman Quotes 0 0
Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago. Mary-Kate Olsen American Actress More Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes 0 0
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! Yoko Ono American Artist More Yoko Ono Quotes 0 0
I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting. Yoko Ono American Artist More Yoko Ono Quotes 0 0
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. Yoko Ono American Artist More Yoko Ono Quotes 0 0
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.' Trey Parker American Artist More Trey Parker Quotes 0 0
You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it. Trey Parker American Artist More Trey Parker Quotes 0 0
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. Dolly Parton American Musician More Dolly Parton Quotes 0 0
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Pope John Paul II Polish Clergyman More Pope John Paul II Quotes 0 0
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music. Guy Pearce English Actor More Guy Pearce Quotes 0 0
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. Lou Reed American Musician More Lou Reed Quotes 0 0
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. Lou Reed American Musician More Lou Reed Quotes 0 0
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard. Jeremy Renner American Actor More Jeremy Renner Quotes 0 0
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. Jeremy Renner American Actor More Jeremy Renner Quotes 0 0
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. Little Richard American Musician More Little Richard Quotes 0 0
I've never seen the devil create music. Little Richard American Musician More Little Richard Quotes 0 0
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. Keith Richards English Musician More Keith Richards Quotes 0 0
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. Keith Richards English Musician More Keith Richards Quotes 0 0
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. Keith Richards English Musician More Keith Richards Quotes 0 0
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. Keith Richards English Musician More Keith Richards Quotes 0 0
And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive. Katey Sagal American Athlete More Katey Sagal Quotes 0 0
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music. Katey Sagal American Athlete More Katey Sagal Quotes 0 0
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both. Katey Sagal American Athlete More Katey Sagal Quotes 0 0
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. Katey Sagal American Athlete More Katey Sagal Quotes 0 0
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way. Katey Sagal American Athlete More Katey Sagal Quotes 0 0
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Carlos Santana Mexican Musician More Carlos Santana Quotes 0 0
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. Carlos Santana Mexican Musician More Carlos Santana Quotes 0 0
Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. Ice T American Musician More Ice T Quotes 0 0
Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore Indian Poet More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes