Music Quotes

"I find that different types of music are good for certain activities"

Peter Steele, Musician

"When words leave off, music begins"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape"

Thom Yorke, 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

"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it"

John Lennon, Musician

"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, Novelist

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it"

John Lennon, Musician

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it"

Robert Plant, Musician

"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"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, Writer

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it"

Adam Jones, Musician

"But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music"

Adam Jones, Musician

"Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money"

Rick Wright, Musician

"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music"

Lars von Trier, Director

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