1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
Susan Orlean

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
Jennifer Lopez

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Roy H. Williams

There is still a future with music, because people want music.
Maynard James Keenan

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
Maynard James Keenan

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Maynard James Keenan

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
Lenny Kravitz

There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Sting

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Barry White

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Sting

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
Pete Townshend