We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Music Quotes from Aaron Judge, Nate Dogg, Roy H. Williams, Post Malone, Allen Ginsberg. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music.
There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians’ breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
I’ve always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn’t changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It’s a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’re got music.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it’s not only about the music.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You can’t do that with classical.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
When Kubrick called me about ‘The Shining,’ it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about ‘The Awakening of Jacob,’ which he did use in ‘The Shining.’
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
Music will save the world.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
You always gonna feel me. That’s my main thing. When I’m speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
Well, I didn’t really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.
I write music with an exclamation point!
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
I had to realize that you can’t try to get money, support yourself, and grind doing whatchu need to do at the same time. The music is the grind. You really gotta grind. You gotta find your way around. You can’t be stuck tryna get there.
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence’s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I’m really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Music has no language. That’s something I’ve come to believe in even more ever since ‘Kolaveri Di’ happened. I don’t deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I’d wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn’t even really into jazz that much.
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Every song is like a painting.
Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
Fashion and all that comes after the music.
Pop music will never be low brow.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.
I’m not a man of many words, I’m not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
Music is a part of someone’s soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don’t want anything to do with it.
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
I think 42 Dugg is a superstar – he’s got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!
I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have – one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
Music happens. It cannot be made.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
The one thing I do know is that I’m the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
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.
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
There are people who think negatively, and there have been people who react negatively towards BTS music.
The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
I enjoy ‘down South’ music.
With the Neal Morse Band, we’re doing progressive music with a harder edge; it’s a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it’s more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Music is the silence between the notes.
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that’s fine with me as long as it doesn’t bother them that they’re not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
No matter where I’m at in life, whether I’m in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can’t act too hard about that.
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Music is the medicine of the mind.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful. Artistically I’m not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I’m not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music is my first love.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
It’s so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.
When you’re making music, it’s meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I’m writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There’s something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I’ll let them do it. I’m just here to fit in and see where it goes.
We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.
Music is something that should give you peace.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
If you put out quality music, you’re always going to be in a good place.
I listen to old music, man.
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Sometimes it’s hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged… we want to give them new music.
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Music is therapy for me. It’s my outlet for every negative thing I’ve ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
I feel sexy when I’m natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like, ‘I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Music fathoms the sky.
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
I’m always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
There’s always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic ’60’s and ’70’s rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we’re sort of the anatomy of a ’70’s rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the ’50’s and ’60’s.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.
Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
The thing is, I make music I like. So it’s just weird if someone says they don’t like it.
I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall… No! No, it was Stonewall – it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 – oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out.
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It’s the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don’t buy headphones – people do.
Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.
There’s no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It’s all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It’s the verbal music of the piece.
I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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.
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.
I live my life and play my music, and I don’t really seek out other people’s approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what’s true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group… Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
All music is beautiful.
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago – you’d have to put that into better English for me, thank you – they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven’t felt.
If I hadn’t had music in my life, it’s quite possible I’d be dead and I’d much rather be alive.
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you’re left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you’re just left with rhythm.
Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
I have to be able to have music at all times – to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I’m left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.
I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we – it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.
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.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Country’s hip; it’s cool music.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It’s a form of synaesthesia.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Great music is great music. It doesn’t matter what genre it belongs.
There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Things have changed so much. People walked away from a simple life we had in the ’20s and ’30s, and I am glad that I am able to touch that period in our lives with the shows that I do and with the music that I do.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
I had two passions growing up – one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two – and there was Spotify.
I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.
A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.
Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Music is in my DNA!
If a guy’s got it, let him give it. I’m selling music, not prejudice.
I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we’re really lazy and we play PlayStation.
My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked ‘Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.’
The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Everything I do, I’m always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I’m playing music. When I’m showering, I’ve got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Give me a laundry-list and I’ll set it to music.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
I let my team pick what order the records go. I don’t pick my own records. I’m a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night – without phone calls disturbing me.
I got the idea for ‘Throne of Glass’ when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the ‘Cinderella’ soundtrack, I thought, ‘What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn’t mind kicking butt?’
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.
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
It’s the music that brings us together.
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
I didn’t learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father’s advice and learn as much as I could about music.
I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’
I think the ’60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the ’70s, it just kind of became… mellow.
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
There’s not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
Music is a safe kind of high.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
As Bob Marley says, ‘We must carry on.’ So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn’t do music, the girls that like me wouldn’t like me, but I think I make ugly look good.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.
I really enjoy dancing. When there’s music around, I can’t help it; I start dancing, especially when I’m with friends.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
Making a record? You’ve got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it’s the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you’re already 90% there. I always tell young people it’s all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.
Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms – and they tone your abs at the same time! I like to do them when I’m home watching TV or listening to music.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.
Many people work behind a music project, but hardly get recognised.
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we’d be playing in church, we’d be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they’re like extra bonuses.
I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
The sense of jubilee for music and what we’re making is always genuine.
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.
I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
I’m always going to be able to touch fans and get new fans because everybody goes through something everyday. I just keep touching different subjects by talking to the streets and reaching out to my fans by telling them a story instead of just giving them music to listen.
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn’t accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.
You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
I was spoiled by Monk’s music because it was so good, so complete.
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I’m just a sweet girl.
You can’t save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.
I feel like I’m bipolar. I have my different moods and that. That’s why my music exists in so many different worlds – this moment I’m feeling all raw, this moment I’m wanting to talk to a girl, the next moment I’m wanting to talk about spirit and be deep. Then I’m back to being angry.
I’ve been in the game a long time. I’ve done all sorts of different types of music. From mob music to the G-Funk era.
A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.
Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.
Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That’s what I want to achieve with my music.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Music is what I love to do; it’s in my veins.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it’s important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
Music is made one of Satan’s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
Ladies and gentleman, I’ve suffered for my music, now it’s your turn.
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
I think that American music, for me, it’s a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don’t really have the patience for it, and they don’t stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we’re the laptop generation.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
Wine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine.
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.
You know, music is sex. It’s a sensual driving mode that affects people if it’s played a certain way.
I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer. I’ve been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I’ve allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Music is the biggest tool of revolution – the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.
Nothing can ever be wrong about music.
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don’t want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.
I’ve always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I’ve been lucky about is I didn’t bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.
He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Music is love in search of a word.
I don’t like to talk about typical things in my music – my music is more about real life situations.
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
You don’t get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it’s unnatural to have music. I always feel it’s unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
I want people to get positive energy from our music.
I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn’t take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify.
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
‘The Beatles’ did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Music and fashion have to have their own styles. It’s a must.
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.
I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords. But I also have a thing for bubbly lullaby music. Kind of like ice-cream truck rap.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
Soul music is timeless.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
It’s a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents’ passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It’s no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world… it pushed me to think of things bigger than life’s daily routines… to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
I’m not into music – the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.
What’s missing from pop music is danger.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I’ll turn on music – I love Latin, disco, and pop – and do my own workout, even if it’s a short one. Know a good song to work out to? ‘I Will Survive.’
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
When young people fall in love, they start to understand my music.
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Here’s how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it’s music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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.
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
If music be the food of love, play on.
In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
Rock n’ roll! It’s the music of puberty.
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
