It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today. Layne Staley on music
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on music
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. Robert Fulghum on music
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. Katy Perry on music
Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. Katy Perry on music
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. Billie Joe Armstrong on music
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. Fred Durst on music
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Camille Paglia on music
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Maurice Ravel on music
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere on music
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. Buddy Holly on music
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. Ellie Goulding on music
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. Jerry Garcia on music
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden on music
Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them. Ellie Goulding on music
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. Henri Frederic Amiel on music
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep. Ellie Goulding on music
I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do. Harry Connick, Jr. on music
I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else. Ellie Goulding on music
Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. Jesse Jackson on music