Famous Quotes
- If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
- David Byrne on Music
- If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
- Quincy Jones on Music
- If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon on Music
- If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
- David Guetta on Music
- If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
- James Hetfield on Music
- If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
- Clint Eastwood on Music
- If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare on Music
- If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
- Aulis Sallinen on Music
- If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
- Paula Cole on Music
- If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
- Oscar Wilde on Music
- If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
- If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
- Roberto Cavalli on Music
- If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
- 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 on Music
- If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards on Music
- If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
- Katy Perry on Music
- If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
- Thomas Carlyle on Music
- If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
- Billy Joel on Music
- If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
- Levon Helm on Music
- If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
- Dolly Parton on Music
- If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
- James Taylor on Music
- If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
- Eddie Van Halen on Music
- If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- Richard M. Nixon on Music
- In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
- Billy Corgan on Music
- In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
- Chris Barber on Music
- In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
- In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
- Roy H. Williams on Music
- In memory everything seems to happen to music.
- Tennessee Williams on Music
- In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- In music the passions enjoy themselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Music
- In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
- Jamie Foxx on Music
- In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
- Joni Mitchell on Music
- In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
- Susan Orlean on Music
- In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
- Lorin Maazel on Music
- Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.
- Avril Lavigne on Music
- It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
- David Byrne on Music
- It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Music
- It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- Samuel Butler on Music
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
- Honore De Balzac on Music
- It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Benjamin Britten on Music
- It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
- Bruce Beresford on Music
- It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Music
- It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Music
- It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
- Steve Jobs on Music
- 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 on Music
- It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
- Martina McBride on Music
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann on Music
- It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
- David Byrne on Music
- It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
- Jonathan Davis on Music
- It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
- Layne Staley on Music
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