After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Votes: 3
Aldous HuxleyMusic expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Votes: 3
Victor HugoNext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Votes: 3
Martin LutherMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Votes: 3
Maya AngelouTrue music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. Votes: 2
George GershwinTones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. Votes: 2
Ludwig van BeethovenMusic should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Votes: 2
Ludwig van BeethovenIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Votes: 2
Gustav MahlerThe '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done. Votes: 6 Don Cornelius
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. Votes: 4 John Mellencamp
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. Votes: 4 Graham Nash
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Votes: 2 Johnny Otis
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. Votes: 8 Kurt Cobain
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation. Votes: 7 Mike Love
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Votes: 5 Brian Eno
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? Votes: 3 Queen Latifah
Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music. Votes: 4 Compay Segundo
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. Votes: 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. Votes: 4 Dave Matthews
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. Votes: 3 Nina Simone
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. Votes: 7 Satyajit Ray
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. Votes: 4 Joan Armatrading
In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Votes: 2 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Votes: 2 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Votes: 1 Soren Kierkegaard
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. Votes: 2 Archie Shepp
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings. Votes: 3 Shawn Amos
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. Votes: 1 Billy Joel
Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music. Votes: 3 Don Kardong
I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music. Votes: 3 Glenn Frey
For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes. Votes: 3 Juicy J
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. Votes: 4 Stevie Ray Vaughan
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover. Votes: 3 James Gleick
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. Votes: 1 Pink
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that. Votes: 1 John Legend
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. Votes: 1 Moby
Chamber music - a conversation between friends. Votes: 3 Catherine Drinker Bowen
A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow! Votes: 3 Mehmet Murat ildan
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. Votes: 4 Dave Grohl
To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. Votes: 4 Melvyn Bragg
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. Votes: 4 Amy Grant
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. Votes: 4 Bruce Springsteen
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. Votes: 3 Scott Weiland
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Votes: 5 Kin Hubbard
When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff. Votes: 2 Max Schneider
I love being a part of the country-music community. Votes: 2 Taylor Swift
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. Votes: 3 Dweezil Zappa
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. Votes: 1 Amy Grant
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. Votes: 6 Carla Bruni
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. Votes: 3 Dolly Parton
Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up. Votes: 4 Ashley Monroe
I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift. Votes: 3 Lucy Hale
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't. Votes: 2 Kacey Musgraves
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. Votes: 2 Beth Ditto
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious. Votes: 3 Penn Jillette
I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. Votes: 3 Rickie Lee Jones
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody. Votes: 4 Theophilus London
Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions. Votes: 3 Ned Sublette
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. Votes: 4 Coco Lee
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. Votes: 3 Tina Weymouth
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Tate
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. Votes: 1 Taylor Swift
I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke. Votes: 2 Skylar Grey
I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater. Votes: 3 Joseph Gatt
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. Votes: 4 Claire Denis
I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music. Votes: 4 Rico Love
I like music, a lot of different types of music. Votes: 4 Raymond Kelly
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Votes: 4 Roger Ebert
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. Votes: 2 Henri Frederic Amiel
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago. Votes: 1 Kaskade
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. Votes: 4 Bill Laswell
We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. Votes: 3 John Eldredge
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Votes: 2 Sebastian Bach
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. Votes: 3 Joey Ramone
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. Votes: 2 Agnes de Mille
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain. Votes: 1 John C. Reilly
To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not. Votes: 1 Ashley Monroe
Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music. Votes: 3 Tim Heidecker
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music. Votes: 3 Mick Ralphs
I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. Votes: 2 Michael Kiwanuka
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. Votes: 6 Malcolm Arnold
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. Votes: 5 Mark Knopfler
I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out. Votes: 4 Kendrick Lamar
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them. Votes: 3 Nobuo Uematsu
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. Votes: 2 Herbie Hancock
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. Votes: 4 Willie Nelson
My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people. Votes: 3 Sid Bernstein
I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us. Votes: 3 Marcus Samuelsson
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base. Votes: 5 Greg Lake
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. Votes: 4 George Jean Nathan
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great. Votes: 3 Katherine Jenkins
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. Votes: 2 Robert Smith
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for grunge music, well that was the death kneel for a lot of the glam metal hair bands of the 80's, so I really do not care for grunge. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. Votes: 3 Vinnie Vincent
In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar. Votes: 3 Autre Ne Veut
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Votes: 1 Emile M. Cioran
We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us. Votes: 2 Chris Barber
I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! Votes: 3 Evangeline Lilly
I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music. Votes: 4 Chris Stapleton
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Votes: 1 Johnny Cash
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. Votes: 1 Elton John
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren. Votes: 2 Kathleen Battle
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. Votes: 6 Charles Rosen
Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it. Votes: 4 Mayer Hawthorne
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. Votes: 3 Ellen G. White
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. Votes: 2 Peter Tork
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. Votes: 4 Adam Kluger
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music. Votes: 7 Avicii
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids. Votes: 3 Steven Tyler
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. Votes: 1 Faith Hill
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. Votes: 3 Usher
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. Votes: 2 Ice Cube
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. Votes: 3 Dave Grohl
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. Votes: 5 Lee Konitz
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene. Votes: 2 Diablo Cody
So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. Votes: 6 Smokey Robinson
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Votes: 3 Roger Ebert
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside. Votes: 4 Ali Akbar Khan
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. Votes: 3 Robert Plant
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. Votes: 2 Van Morrison
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. Votes: 3 Grace Jones
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. Votes: 2 Bryan Adams
I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.' Votes: 1 John Zorn
In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends. Votes: 1 Jake Epstein
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. Votes: 4 Spike Jonze
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles. Votes: 3 Ednita Nazario
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love. Votes: 3 Matthieu Ricard
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. Votes: 3 Leonard Bernstein
People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. Votes: 3 Tori Amos
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one. Votes: 3 Michael Jackson
When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it. Votes: 1 Natalia Kills
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. Votes: 3 Stephan Jenkins
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. Votes: 3 Tom Waits
One of the things I love about music is live performance. Votes: 1 Yo-Yo Ma
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. Votes: 3 Bobby Sherman
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same. Votes: 4 Robert Towne
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. Votes: 4 Gordon Getty
I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror. Votes: 2 Luke Mably
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. Votes: 4 Alan Vega
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. Votes: 3 Kate Smith
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. Votes: 1 Suzanne Farrell
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on. Votes: 3 Brian Michael Bendis
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. Votes: 2 Tony Kaye
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. Votes: 4 Jason Alexander
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. Votes: 1 Georg Solti
There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. Votes: 2 Leon Theremin
There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance. Votes: 6 Irving Berlin
I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design. Votes: 4 Malorie Blackman
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. Votes: 4 Andie MacDowell
We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions. Votes: 3 Bryant McGill
There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. Votes: 2 Dhani Jones
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic. Votes: 4 Yancy Butler
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. Votes: 2 Agnes de Mille
I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back. Votes: 1 Carrie Ann Inaba
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Votes: 1 Plato
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. Votes: 1 Grimes
I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music. Votes: 3 Link Wray
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. Votes: 3 LL Cool J
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Votes: 1 Christina Milian
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. Votes: 1 Brian Eno
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that. Votes: 1 Steve Vai
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort. Votes: 3 Christopher Hitchens
You'll also need to invest in yourself with the kind of promo that targets your specific audience to help build that word of mouth. Most importantly, believe in what you're doing and in your music and lyrics. Votes: 2 Eliot Lewis
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. Votes: 2 Thomas Beecham
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. Votes: 1 Michio Kaku
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. Votes: 2 Ruben Blades
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. Votes: 4 Len G. Murray
Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it. Votes: 2 Rick Wakeman
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' Votes: 1 Jon Landau
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. Votes: 1 Isaac Stern
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. Votes: 3 Igor Stravinsky
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. Votes: 2 Abraham Maslow
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Votes: 2 Ludwig van Beethoven
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns. Votes: 1 Tina Weymouth
The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music. Votes: 1 Tyler Hilton
Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity. Votes: 1 Damian Marley
When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box. Votes: 4 Audra McDonald
I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings. Votes: 3 Tod Machover
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music. Votes: 2 Cass McCombs
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. Votes: 2 Ellie Goulding
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around. Votes: 1 Bahman Ghobadi
Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Votes: 1 Michael Franti
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. Votes: 2 Barry Manilow
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music. Votes: 2 John Tesh
Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that. Votes: 2 Ed Sheeran
I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school. Votes: 3 Brooke Fraser
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. Votes: 2 Twyla Tharp
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing. Votes: 4 Rokia Traore
Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. Votes: 4 Park Chan-wook
There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. Votes: 1 Kailash Kher
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. Votes: 3 Van Morrison
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. Votes: 3 Igor Stravinsky
I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life. Votes: 1 Natalia Tena
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. Votes: 4 Erich Leinsdorf
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's a fantastic thing. In Europe, being principal conductor means merely that you're the person who does most of the concerts. For me, that simply isn't enough. Votes: 3 Jeffrey Tate
When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity. Votes: 2 Jann Klose
I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting. Votes: 1 Drake
I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though. Votes: 3 Jenny Hval
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. Votes: 1 Andrea Bocelli
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. Votes: 4 Kris Allen
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. Votes: 1 Kris Allen
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects. Votes: 1 Shigeru Miyamoto
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. Votes: 2 Albert Einstein
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. Votes: 2 Eminem
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. Votes: 3 Vinnie Vincent
Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses. Votes: 1 Kaskade
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors. Votes: 1 Taylor Swift
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles. Votes: 1 Michael Rapaport
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. Votes: 1 Dexter Gordon
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. Votes: 1 Tony Levin
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. Votes: 1 Shawn Amos
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it. Votes: 3 Joel Madden
I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan. Votes: 4 Trace Adkins
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. Votes: 4 Gavin Bryars
The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives. Votes: 2 Dionne Warwick
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music. Votes: 3 Marilyn Manson
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films. Votes: 1 Claire Denis
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. Votes: 1 Hanns Eisler
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil. Votes: 1 Jesse Harris
I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies. Votes: 1 Marco Beltrami
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. Votes: 2 Rosanna Arquette
Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. Votes: 1 Joel Osteen
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' Votes: 2 Al Yankovic
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. Votes: 3 James Vincent McMorrow
Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world. Votes: 4 Shawn Amos
I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm. Votes: 3 Edgar Winter
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. Votes: 4 Elton John
I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations. Votes: 1 Eric Stonestreet
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. Votes: 1 Jennifer Hudson
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. Votes: 6 George Crumb
There is a great correlation between music and images. Votes: 2 Graham Nash
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. Votes: 2 Richard Morris
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. Votes: 2 John Keats
It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool. Votes: 3 Taryn Manning
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. Votes: 1 Steven Curtis Chapman
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer. Votes: 1 Enrique Iglesias
Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. Votes: 1 Joel Osteen
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. Votes: 1 George Szell
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. Votes: 2 Richard Morris
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club. Votes: 1 Kelsea Ballerini
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. Votes: 4 Tupac Shakur
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Votes: 2 William Shakespeare
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. Votes: 2 A. J. McLean
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. Votes: 4 Erykah Badu
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. Votes: 4 Lenny Kravitz
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. Votes: 2 Janel Parrish
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does. Votes: 1 Peter Fonda
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people. Votes: 3 Michael Azerrad
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. Votes: 2 Carter Burwell
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. Votes: 1 Kyp Malone
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. Votes: 2 John Legend
I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. Votes: 4 Alex Winston
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. Votes: 4 Harrison Birtwistle
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. Votes: 1 Dayananda Saraswati
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics. Votes: 2 Kailash Kher
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream. Votes: 3 Charles Hazlewood
But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. Votes: 1 John Lurie
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. Votes: 4 Ned Beatty
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. Votes: 1 Luther Allison
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide. Votes: 1 Shawn Amos
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. Votes: 2 David Archuleta
I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos. Votes: 2 Ashley Tisdale
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. Votes: 3 T. D. Jakes
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. Votes: 2 Felicity Kendal
It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more. Votes: 1 Anita Pallenberg
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. Votes: 3 Sarah McCoy
I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it. Votes: 3 Mirel Wagner
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. Votes: 2 Robin Gibb
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. Votes: 3 William Osler
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. Votes: 4 Thomas Browne
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. Votes: 1 Youssou N'Dour
The coolest thing, too, is that people that have never even seen 'One Tree Hill' tell me, 'I love your music.' And I'm like, 'Oh, do you watch the show?' And they say 'No.' And to me that's even cooler because that means I'm actually starting to get country fans. Votes: 1 Jana Kramer
I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway. Votes: 3 Michael Gira
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. Votes: 2 Lawrence Welk
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Votes: 1 Oscar Wilde
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Votes: 0 Bob Marley
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Votes: 3 Claude Debussy
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless. Votes: 2 Chuck Palahniuk
Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem. Votes: 3 Jodi Picoult
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Votes: 1 Anton Corbijn
I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations. Votes: 3 Ben Howard
Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next Votes: 4 William Westney
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on. Votes: 3 iO Tillett Wright
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction. Votes: 3 Sean Combs
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records? Votes: 3 Ezra Taft Benson
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' Votes: 1 Trent Reznor
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of. Votes: 1 Mac DeMarco
Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it's a big stress reliever. Votes: 1 Erin Heatherton
Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life. Votes: 2 Kailash Kher
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. Votes: 4 Mahalia Jackson
There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars. Votes: 1 Noel Gallagher
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. Votes: 1 Harry Connick, Jr.
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. Votes: 1 Jerry Garcia
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case. Votes: 2 Chance The Rapper
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. Votes: 2 Captain Beefheart
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. Votes: 2 Bobby Short
I always thought I was singing American folk music. Votes: 2 Lonnie Donegan
My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist. Votes: 1 Ziggy Marley
I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. Votes: 5 Rod Stewart
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit. Votes: 4 Bahman Ghobadi
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. Votes: 1 Kenneth Noland
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something. Votes: 2 Steven Patrick Morrissey
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person. Votes: 2 Maddie Ziegler
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. Votes: 6 David Ogden Stiers
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. Votes: 4 David Ogden Stiers
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Votes: 1 Roger Ebert
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. Votes: 3 James Weldon Johnson
The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. Votes: 4 Natasha Bedingfield
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. Votes: 2 Taylor Swift
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. Votes: 3 Neil Diamond
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. Votes: 5 Oliver Sacks
For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes. Votes: 1 Juicy J
I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything. Votes: 2 Carrot Top
BMG has been an awesome partner throughout my career, and with New London, we plan to continue bridging the gap between soul, pop, London, and New York - uniting them through music. Votes: 1 Estelle
For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool. Votes: 1 Jim Coleman
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. Votes: 1 Tony Levin
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. Votes: 2 Henry Rollins
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Votes: 1 Victor Hugo
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. Votes: 2 Seamus Dever
I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance. Votes: 3 Jonathan Glazer
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. Votes: 1 Barbara Sher
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise. Votes: 1 Simon McBurney
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. Votes: 2 Edie Brickell
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. Votes: 3 Mstislav Rostropovich
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. Votes: 1 Dwight Yoakam
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. Votes: 1 Dwight Yoakam
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. Votes: 2 Rivers Cuomo
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. Votes: 1 Ravi Shankar
I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college. Votes: 4 Colson Whitehead
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music. Votes: 3 Benjamin Booker
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Votes: 1 Yahoo Serious
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. Votes: 2 Henry Rollins
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music. Votes: 4 Chet Faker
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. Votes: 4 Gyorgy Ligeti
There's so much music going on in New Orleans. Votes: 2 Anthony Hemingway
Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music. Votes: 3 Gretchen Carlson
Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. Votes: 4 Henry Rollins
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it Votes: 3 Thurston Moore
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music. Votes: 1 Larry Norman
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. Votes: 1 Peter Warlock
I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Run DMC. I'm really into that! Hip-hop these days isn't the same and doesn't have the same sound anymore. I'd rather listen to the old school hip-hop. Votes: 4 Raven Goodwin
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up. Votes: 3 Scott Stapp
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. Votes: 1 Missy Elliott
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Votes: 1 Kurt Cobain
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. Votes: 4 Patton Oswalt
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else. Votes: 2 Marina and the Diamonds
My passion for music has always inspired my designs. Votes: 6 Tommy Hilfiger
I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears. Votes: 4 Lindi Ortega
My passion for music is one of my greatest loves. Votes: 2 Naya Rivera
Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music. Votes: 1 John Mackey
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. Votes: 2 Toni Braxton
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Votes: 1 Ludwig van Beethoven
Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. Votes: 1 Steven Adler
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. Votes: 2 James Hetfield
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. Votes: 1 Milan Kundera
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Votes: 3 Jill Scott
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. Votes: 6 George Steiner
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. Votes: 4 Lady Gaga
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. Votes: 3 Keith Richards
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Votes: 1 Roger Ebert
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be. Votes: 6 Bow Wow
When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music. Votes: 1 Ellen Hollman
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any. Votes: 3 Erik Satie
You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. Votes: 4 Julie Taymor
Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well. Votes: 1 Chris Lowe
I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. Votes: 2 Kate Nash
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. Votes: 4 Sade Adu
I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. Votes: 4 John Mayer
When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD. Votes: 1 Robert Osborne
You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio. Votes: 2 Nayvadius Cash
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. Votes: 1 Florence Welch
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. Votes: 3 Eminem
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. Votes: 4 Roy Wood
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. Votes: 4 Lisa Marie Presley
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man. Votes: 2 Kris Kristofferson
And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. Votes: 2 Merle Haggard
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Votes: 2 John O'Donohue
My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply. Votes: 1 Gary Larson
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' Votes: 2 Elvis Presley
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. Votes: 3 Bruce Dickinson
If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring. Votes: 3 M.I.A.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. Votes: 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition. Votes: 4 Brian May
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Votes: 1 Andrea Bocelli
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. Votes: 2 Jill Scott
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. Votes: 4 George Lucas
Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Votes: 6 Bernie Siegel
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters. Votes: 3 Chuck Leavell
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Votes: 5 Jasper Fforde
I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. Votes: 3 Flea
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. Votes: 1 James Weldon Johnson
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music. Votes: 4 Conor Oberst
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. Votes: 4 Jennifer Hudson
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. Votes: 0 Nobuo Uematsu
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition. Votes: 3 Tom Chapin
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. Votes: 7 Kathleen Hanna
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. Votes: 3 Adam Braun
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. Votes: 4 Herbie Hancock
We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music. Votes: 3 Tom Cochrane
I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet. Votes: 2 Norah Jones
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. Votes: 2 Spike Lee
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. Votes: 8 Kiri Te Kanawa
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. Votes: 1 Richard Wagner
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. Votes: 1 Heinrich Heine
What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) Votes: 3 Michele Norris
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record. Votes: 1 Ed Sheeran
I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that. Votes: 3 Dionne Warwick
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. Votes: 1 Etta James
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh. Votes: 3 Greg Behrendt