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Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
— Roy Ayers
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
— Nas
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
— Jimi Hendrix
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
— Jimi Hendrix
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.
— William Wordsworth
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
— Ice Cube
Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.
— Henry Rollins
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
— Ray Charles
Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.
— Michael Franti
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music. 
— John Keats
Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
— Bruno Mars
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.
— Peabo Bryson
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
— Jay-Z
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
— William Lyon Phelps
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
— Kurt Cobain
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— David Sanborn
Music comes to me more readily than words.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
— Damon Albarn
I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.
— Tony Hawk
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.
— Stanley Kubrick
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.
— Quentin Tarantino
Music inflames temperament.
— Jim Morrison
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
— John Coltrane
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
— Conrad Hall
Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.
— David Ogden Stiers
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
— Sia
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
— Frank Capra
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.
— David Bowie
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
— Jean Paul
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
— Duke Ellington
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
— Casey Kasem
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world. 
— Giuseppe Mazzini
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
— John Lennon
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
— Dean Bakopoulos
Music is my religion.
— Jimi Hendrix
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
— Taylor Swift
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
— Bruce Springsteen
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.
— Michio Kaku
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
— Pauly D
There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
— Dhani Jones
Music is the best way for me to say I love you.
— Mireille Mathieu
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
— Art Blakey
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
— Mel Brooks
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.
— Kim Fields
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
— Bob Dylan
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
— Thom Yorke
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
— Bob Marley
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
— Groucho Marx
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
— Kanye West
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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.
— Ed Sheeran
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
— Jelly Roll Morton
Music is the emotional life of most people.
— Leonard Cohen
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
— Sonny Terry
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
— John Frusciante
Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it. 
— Sting
You are the music while the music lasts.
— T. S. Eliot
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Anne Lamott
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
— Bill Monroe
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.
— Amy Lee
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
— Ziggy Marley
It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.
— Thomas Bangalter
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
— Dolly Parton
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
— Mark Knopfler
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
— Marvin Sapp
All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.
— Jamie xx
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
— Charlie Parker
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.
— Eric Clapton
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
Music is a safe kind of high.
— Jimi Hendrix
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
— Zack de la Rocha
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
— Luciano Pavarotti
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
— Chester Bennington
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.
— Alicia Keys
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
— Priyanka Chopra
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
— Amy Winehouse
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
— George Crumb
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
— Eminem
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
— Kanye West
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
— Gustav Mahler
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
— William Shakespeare
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Stevie Nicks
Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.
— Andra Day
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
— Salma Hayek
Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
— Luis Fonsi
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
— Nina Simone
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
— Connie Britton
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
— Diane Paulus
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
— Dr. Dre
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
— Giorgio Moroder
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
— Taylor Swift
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
— Taylor Swift
I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.
— Luis Fonsi
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
— Fredric Jameson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
— Gotye
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
— A. R. Rahman
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
— Jay Duplass
Music is the medicine of the mind.
— John A. Logan
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
— Frank Zappa
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
— Ozzy Osbourne
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
— Lenny Kravitz
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.
— Norman Borlaug
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.
— Igor Stravinsky
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
— Sun Ra
I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!
— Tristan Wilds
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
— Aretha Franklin
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
— Vera Wang
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
— Arvo Part
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
— Albert Einstein
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
— Keith Richards
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
— Dizzy Gillespie
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
— E. W. Howe
As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
— Kendrick Lamar
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
— John Green
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
— Sylvia Earle
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 Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
— Ozzy Osbourne
I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.
— Rico Love
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
— Questlove
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
— Armin van Buuren
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
— Dolly Parton
I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
— T.I.
Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
— Daniel Barenboim
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
— Sonny Rollins
Soul music is timeless.
— Alicia Keys
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
— Etta James
Music is really driving my whole life.
— Ariana Grande
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.
— Morrissey
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
— Jill Scott
My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!
— Jennifer Aniston
Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.
— Alain Ducasse
It's very easy for people to put out music.
— Charlie Puth
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
— Pope John Paul II
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
— Miles Davis
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
— Barry Gibb
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
— Claude Debussy
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
— Christina Milian
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
— Dave Van Ronk
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
— Barack Obama
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.
— Bob Dylan
I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
— Justin Bieber
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
— Trey Anastasio
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
— Chris Cornell
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
— Ina Garten
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
— Ai Weiwei
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
— Sam Shepard
There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
— Jimmy Buffett
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.
— Neneh Cherry
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
— Henry Rollins
People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.
— Laura Marling
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
— Chester Bennington
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
— Bruce Dickinson
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
— Tom Petty
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
— Afrika Bambaataa
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
— Andres Segovia
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Jon Batiste
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
— Eminem
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
— Confucius
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
— Andre Rieu
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
— Yolanda Adams
I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.
— Jay-Z
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
— Snoop Dogg
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
— Howard Shore
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.
— Jay-Z
I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
— Kevin Gates
For me, music and life are all about style.
— Miles Davis
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
— Ray Charles
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
— Amy Irving
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
— River Phoenix
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
— Luciano Pavarotti
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
— Gary Wright
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
— Pitbull
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
— B. B. King
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
— Frank Zappa
When words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
— Jean Cocteau
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
— Pablo Casals
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
— Paul Simon
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
— William Congreve
I see music as fluid architecture.
— Joni Mitchell
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
— Maurice Ravel
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
— Buddy Guy
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
— Michael Tippett
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
— Paulina Rubio
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
— Adele
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.
— Koko Taylor
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
— Leonard Bernstein
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
— Abraham Maslow
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.
— Lil Uzi Vert
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.
— Wynton Marsalis
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
— Ann Demeulemeester
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
— Henry Rollins
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.
— Agnes Obel
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?
— Prince
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
— Grace Slick
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
— Lauryn Hill
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
— Miles Davis
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
— Berry Gordy
When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
— Donny Hathaway
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
— Alicia Keys
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.
— Nicholas Kristof
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
— James Joseph Sylvester
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
— Claudio Monteverdi
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.
— Tupac Shakur
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
— Walter Pater
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.
— Steve Prefontaine
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.
— Jane Siberry
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.
— Ruta Sepetys
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
— Robert Schumann
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
— Hans Zimmer
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.
— Jill Scott
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
— Clint Eastwood
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
— Damian Marley
One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.
— Megalyn Echikunwoke
I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
— Afrojack
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
— David Josiah Brewer
For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
— Flume
I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
— John Romero
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
— Chubby Checker
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
— Martha Reeves
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
— Paul McCartney
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
— Kate Chopin
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
— Keith Richards
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
— Enrique Iglesias
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
— Yo-Yo Ma
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.
— Dave Brubeck
There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
— Dan Reynolds
I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?
— Gucci Mane
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.
— Frank Iero
I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
— Amandla Stenberg
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
— Eric Clapton
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
— Taylor Swift
The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
— Bruce Springsteen
I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic.
— Corey Taylor
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
— Blake Shelton
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
— Frank Sinatra
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
— Marcel Marceau
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
— Khalil Gibran
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
— Lawrence Durrell
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
— H. L. Mencken
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
— Igor Stravinsky
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
— Maurice Ravel
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
— Milton Babbitt
It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
— Donald O'Connor
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
— Debbie Gibson
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
— Nina Simone
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
— Cat Stevens
You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
— Liam Gallagher
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
— George Crumb
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
— Billy Higgins
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
— Peter Warlock
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
— Gloria Gaynor
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
— Charlie Haden
So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.
— Jon Crosby
I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.
— Brian Austin Green
I don't listen to my own music at home.
— Celine Dion
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
— Paul Hindemith
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
— Joan Miro
I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.
— Enrique Iglesias
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
— Will Champion
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
— Steve Lacy
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
— Thom Yorke
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
— Frederick Reines
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
— Wole Soyinka
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
— Franz Liszt
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
— Nat King Cole
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
— Fernand Leger
What's really good is African drum music.
— Fiona Apple
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
— Axl Rose
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
— Mike Figgis
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
— Morgan Freeman
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
— Michael Jackson
I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
— Tim McGraw