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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
— Waylon Jennings
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
— Beck
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.
— Diana Ross
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
— Steve Jobs
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
— Eddie Izzard
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
— Ray Charles
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Zhuangzi
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
— Greg Lake
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.
— Diogenes
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.
— Nick Rhodes
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.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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.
— Ice Cube
Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
— LL Cool J
As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.
— Trey Anastasio
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
— Trey Anastasio
Music comes from a place we don't know.
— Chris Martin
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
— Tom Morello
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
— Carrie Brownstein
Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
— Blake Shelton
I want my music to do the explaining.
— Demi Lovato
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
— Kygo
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
— Boethius
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
— Jack White
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
— Duke Ellington
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
— Louis Armstrong
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
— Ice Cube
I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
— Phil Anselmo
Music is what I love to do it's in my veins. 
— Demi Lovato
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
— Baruch Spinoza
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
— Quincy Jones
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
— Felix Mendelssohn
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
— Debbie Harry
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
— J. Carter Brown
When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.
— Tom Stoppard
Music is love in search of a word.
— Sidney Lanier
I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
— Taylor Swift
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
— Paul Auster
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
— Bruce Springsteen
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
— Truman Capote
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.
— Bruno Mars
I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.
— Mark Salling
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
— Isaac Stern
Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
— Francis Collins
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
— Jewel
If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.
— Stormzy
I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
— Luis Fonsi
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
— Billie Holiday
I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.
— Santigold
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
— J. Cole
There's more to life than listening to rock music.
— Frank Black
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.'
— Doris Day
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
— Peter Shaffer
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
— Pink
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
— Herbie Hancock
I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that.
— El DeBarge
You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.
— Shawn Mendes
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
— Jack White
My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.
— Afrojack
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
— Chick Corea
There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten.
— Sonu Nigam
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
— Damon Albarn
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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.
— Nina Simone
I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
— Paul McDonald
I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
— Beyonce Knowles
Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
— Frank Ocean
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
— Peter Tork
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
— Truman Capote
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
— Lady Gaga
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.
— Kylie Minogue
'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.
— Louis Armstrong
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
— Lisa Loeb
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
— Nile Rodgers
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
— Jackson Browne
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
— Faith Hill
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
— James Hetfield
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
— John Cena
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
— Moby
Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
— Noel Gallagher
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
— Yoko Ono
Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
— Blake Shelton
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.
— Jessye Norman
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.
— Dierks Bentley
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.
— Post Malone
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. 
— Arvo Part
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
— Jonathan Edwards
Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
— Miley Cyrus
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
— Pitbull
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
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
— Richard Bach
I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
— Agnes de Mille
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
— Ronnie James Dio
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
— Gabriel Marcel
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
— Billy Wilder
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
— Isaac Stern
I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
— Lamorne Morris
I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
— Corey Taylor
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
— Iggy Pop
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
— Jonathan Davis
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
— Vaughn Monroe
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
— B.o.B
You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.
— will.i.am
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.
— George Clinton
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
— Jeff Buckley
I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
— Yelawolf
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
— John Francis
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
— Kendrick Lamar
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
— Anita Baker
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
— Enya
The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
— Kelli O'Hara
I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.
— Jessye Norman
I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.
— Tinashe
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
— Emmanuel Lubezki
The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality everyone is united by this common language of music. 
— Gael Garcia Bernal
I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
— Tyler Joseph
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
— Matt Haig
The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it's not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international.
— Nicky Jam
Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
— Isaac Hanson
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.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
— Igor Stravinsky
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
— Sean Lennon
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
— Gabriel Marcel
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
— Charley Pride
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.
— Jimi Hendrix
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
— Judd Nelson
The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
— Merle Haggard
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
— Edvard Munch
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
— Alex Kapranos
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.
— Zac Efron
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
— Lenny Kravitz
I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.
— Faith Evans
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.
— Tiesto
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
— Art Blakey
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
— Bruce Springsteen
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.
— Yoko Ono
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
— River Phoenix
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
— Herbie Hancock
I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
— W. H. Auden
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
— David Coverdale
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
— Babyface
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
— Hector Berlioz
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
— Amy Grant
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
— Rod Stewart
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
— Sun Ra
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
— Nikki Sixx
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
— Sting
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
— Frank Zappa
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
— Ozzy Osbourne
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.
— Scott Weiland
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
— Marvin Hamlisch
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
— Gary Numan
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
— Ellie Goulding
Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.
— Ronnie Milsap
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
— James Dyson
I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
— Mika
I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
— Jake Bugg
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
— Dave Matthews
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
— Elvis Costello
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
— Shakira
Everyone one-on-one will be completely honest about the music that they listen to. But then you get into a group situation, and then it's the cool/uncool debate. I have really done my very best to reinforce the very fact that your heart knows better than your head does what you like when it comes to music and what not.
— Corey Taylor
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
— Corey Taylor
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
— Blake Shelton
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
— Yolanda Adams
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
— Kate Bush
Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
— Josh Klinghoffer
It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.
— Kiesza
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
— Taj Mahal
Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.
— Jillian Rose Banks
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.
— Jimmy Page
When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
— John Grant
I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.
— John Grant
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
— Ira Gershwin
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
— Marcel Marceau
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. 
— Plato
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
— Richard Branson
There's no religion but sex and music.
— Sting
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
— Jimi Hendrix
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
— Michael Graves
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
— Claude Debussy
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
— P. J. Harvey
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
— Will Oldham
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
— Don Bluth
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
— Maynard Ferguson
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
— Yo-Yo Ma
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
— Mike Krzyzewski
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
— Brian May
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
— Talib Kweli
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
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
— Loretta Lynn
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
— Enya
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
— Levon Helm
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
— Sean Lennon
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
— Serj Tankian
If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.
— Fuzzy Zoeller
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
— Trey Anastasio
There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.
— Paulina Rubio
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
— Zoe Saldana
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
— Lil Wayne
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
— Henry Miller
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
— Plutarch
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
— Ian Anderson
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
— Tommy Chong
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
— Erykah Badu
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
— Jerry Garcia
Music is always a commentary on society.
— Frank Zappa
I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
— Lil Wayne
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
— Fred Durst
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
— Gustav Mahler
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
— Walter Savage Landor
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
— Dick Clark
Every song is like a painting.
— Dick Dale
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.
— Andres Segovia
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
— LeBron James
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
— Peter De Vries
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
— Robert Frost
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
— Vladimir Nabokov
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
— Montserrat Caballe
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
— Jim Davis
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
— Arthur Rubinstein
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— W. H. Auden
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
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Oscar Wilde
Country music is three chords and the truth.
— Harlan Howard
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
— Brandon Boyd
When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
— Jerry Lee Lewis
There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.
— Leon Theremin
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
— Steve Reich
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
— Steve Reich
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
— Meat Loaf
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
— Randy Travis
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
— Bela Bartok
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.
— Robert Moog
Good rock music always tends to be around.
— Dave Davies
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
— Steve Nash
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
— Howard Gardner
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
— Charles Ives
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
— Jimi Hendrix
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
— Graham Nash
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
— Claude Debussy
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
— Liam Gallagher
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
— Emeril Lagasse
Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.
— Peter Steele
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
— Ruth Brown
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
— Mary Lou Williams
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
— Keith Jarrett
I can write music but I'm not much for words.
— Jim Diamond
I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
— Sabrina Lloyd
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
— Isaac Hanson
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
— John Frusciante
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
— Ennio Morricone
They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.
— Teena Marie
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
— Terri Windling
We just make music. For I never stop working.
— Dennis Brown
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
— Herb Alpert
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
— Yo-Yo Ma
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
— Zac Hanson
Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.
— Tito Jackson
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
— Sun Ra
The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
— Kenny G
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
— Felix Mendelssohn
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
— Ace Frehley
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
— Al Jarreau
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
— Debbie Harry
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
— Deborah Cox
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
— Hugh Miller
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
— John Philip Sousa
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
— Shelley Berman
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
— Layne Staley
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
— Geddy Lee
Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
— Hanns Eisler
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
— Fred Frith
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
— Florenz Ziegfeld
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
— Robert Fripp
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
Music is like a huge release of tension.
— James Taylor
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
— Neil Young
My head works in music, so there's always music there.
— Ben Harper
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
— Michael Stipe
Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
— Phil Collins
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
— Lenny Kravitz
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
— Toni Braxton
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
— Billy Joel
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
— Billy Joel
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
— Katey Sagal
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
— David McCullough
There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
— Jonny Greenwood
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
— Jonny Greenwood
There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
— James Iha
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
— Gunther Schuller