Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. Glenn Hughes on music
Music is always a commentary on society. Frank Zappa on music
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven on music
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! Oliver Wendell Holmes on music
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. Bob Newhart on music
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote on music
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on music
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. Thom Yorke on music
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler on music
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Ludwig van Beethoven on music
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth on music
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible. Amanda Seyfried on music
I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. Stephen Hawking on music
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch on music
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Marilyn vos Savant on music
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. Mary J. Blige on music
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. Lady Gaga on music
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. Neil Young on music
Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. Lil Wayne on music