Music Quotes

"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it"

"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music"

"Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media"

David Sanborn, Musician

"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time"

Brian De Palma, Director

"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time"

David Bowie, Musician

"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through"

Ruth Brown, Musician

"I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals"

Zac Efron, Actor

"I think of painting without subject matter as music without words"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here"

Ruth Brown, Musician

"I never listen to music when I write"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER"

Kerry King, Musician

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around"

Eva Green, Actress

"But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music"

John Lithgow, Actor

"No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music"

David Bowie, Musician

"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does"

David Bowie, Musician

"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, Musician

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts"

David Bowie, Musician

"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I love seeing the fans of the music that I make"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"I am really addicted to music"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did"

Charley Pride, Athlete

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