Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

Explore thoughtful quotes that celebrate rhythm, melody, and the creative spirit behind music. From timeless composers to modern artists, these words reflect practice, performance, collaboration, and the emotions sound can carry. Whether you seek motivation for composing, insight for listening more deeply, or a spark to inspire performance, this collection highlights perspectives across genres and eras, offering a balanced mix of inspiration and reflection to accompany your artistic journey and everyday moments.

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"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"Music is the silence between the notes"

Claude Debussy, Composer

Claude Debussy

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Where words fail, music speaks"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

H. C. Andersen

"Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"Music is the medicine of the mind"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"Music is organized sound"

Edgard Varese, Composer

Edgard Varese

"For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever"

Arthur Sullivan, Composer

"Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer"

Adrian Belew, Musician

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"Without music, life would be a mistake"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In music the passions enjoy themselves"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

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