1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
Buddy Guy

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Paulina Rubio

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
David Coverdale

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Bobby Vinton

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Martin Mull

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
Tom Wopat

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare