1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
Marilyn Manson

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn Manson

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
Marilyn Manson

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
Marilyn Manson

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady Gaga

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
Sebastian Bach

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
Keith Richards

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

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
Alanis Morissette

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Lauryn Hill

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow