Famous Quotes
- My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
- Paul Simon on Music
- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Music
- My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
- Clint Eastwood on Music
- My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
- Katherine Jenkins on Music
- My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
- Bob Marley on Music
- My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
- Ray Charles on Music
- My music is fun, kind of cheeky.
- My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
- Neil Young on Music
- My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
- Shania Twain on Music
- My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
- Bob Marley on Music
- My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
- Paulina Rubio on Music
- My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
- Jennifer Garner on Music
- My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
- Will Smith on Music
- Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
- Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
- Archie Shepp on Music
- 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 on Music
- Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
- Martin Luther on Music
- Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
- David Byrne on Music
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden on Music
- No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
- Steve Martin on Music
- Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
- Norah Jones on Music
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
- Joseph Addison on Music
- Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
- Paul McCartney on Music
- Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
- Bill Cosby on Music
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel Johnson on Music
- Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Music
- Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
- Johnny Cash on Music
- Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.
- Katy Perry on Music
- Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
- Katherine Jenkins on Music
- Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
- Beth Ditto on Music
- On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
- David Bowie on Music
- Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
- Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
- 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 on Music
- One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley on Music
- 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 on Music
- One often makes music to supplement one's world.
- One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
- Lawrence Welk on Music
- Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
- Jerry Cantrell on Music
- Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- 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 on Music
- People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
- David Byrne on Music
- People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
- Milan Kundera on Music
- People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
- People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
- Taylor Swift on Music
- People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
- 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 on Music
- People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
- Billy Corgan on Music
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