Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

Explore thoughtful quotes that celebrate rhythm, melody, and the creative spirit behind music. From timeless composers to modern artists, these words reflect practice, performance, collaboration, and the emotions sound can carry. Whether you seek motivation for composing, insight for listening more deeply, or a spark to inspire performance, this collection highlights perspectives across genres and eras, offering a balanced mix of inspiration and reflection to accompany your artistic journey and everyday moments.

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"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the silence between the notes"

Claude Debussy, Composer

Claude Debussy

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

H. C. Andersen

"Now, so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"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, Musician

Erykah Badu

"Music is the medicine of the mind"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

Louis Armstrong

"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

Maureen Forrester

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"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"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"Music is organized sound"

Edgard Varese, Composer

Edgard Varese

"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"Age 10, I joined the school marching band as a drummer"

Adrian Belew, Musician

"I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"He saw us play a few times, in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

Alvin Lee, Musician

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