Music Quotes

"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague"

John Armstrong

"What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind"

Carl Maria von Weber, Composer

"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"I give myself strength by staying away from any music"

Alannah Myles, Musician

"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it"

Carl Perkins, Musician

"So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"The best way to express rhythm is music"

John Hartford, Musician

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not"

Van Morrison, Musician

"It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?"

Joe Cocker, Musician

"I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music"

Ville Valo, Musician

"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase"

Phil Harris, Musician

"Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does"

Marla Sokoloff, Actor

"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully"

Ville Valo, Musician

"When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland"

Terri Windling, Artist

"We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design"

Steve Albini, Musician

"I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism"

Peter Hook, Musician

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place"

Meat Loaf, Musician

"We're not trying to change the world; just music"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home"

Philip Levine, Poet

"Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either"

Jeff Tweedy, Musician

"Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love"

Hector Berlioz, Composer

"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"I don't use old music"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

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