Music Quotes

"Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion"

"I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does"

"The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys"

"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry"

Rita Dove, Poet

"When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation"

Jim Messina, Musician

"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"The thing about my music is, there really is no point"

Neil Young, Musician

"I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody"

Mos Def, Musician

"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel"

Ken Burns, Director

"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts"

Ken Burns, Director

"We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to"

Will Champion, Musician

"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did"

John Cale, Musician

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away"

Peter Tork, Musician

"Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins"

Peter Tork, Musician

"I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done"

Ice Cube, Musician

"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"

Lara St. John, Musician

"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists"

Lara St. John, Musician

"Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day"

Ruben Blades, Musician

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