Music Quotes

"When we separate music from life we get art"

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""

John Cage, Composer

"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics"

Robert Quine, Musician

"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, Musician

"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"

John Cusack, Actor

"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"

Tara Strong, Actress

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I always make music that is true to my spirit"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it"

Ron Wood, Musician

"Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago"

Alan Jackson, Musician

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