Music Quotes · Page 139

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

— Olly Murs

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

— Geddy Lee

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Turn up the music and turn down the drama.

— Anonymous

I was never in music to make it to award shows.

— Ben Howard

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

— Hildegard of Bingen

I can't act without music very well.

— Samantha Morton

I take musical theater seriously.

— Alice Ripley

“If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.”

— Hans Zimmer

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

— Khalil Gibran

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

— Edward Albee

I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.

— Marty Stuart

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

— A. R. Rahman

“I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”

— Mitch Albom

Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone…

— Ramin Djawadi

I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always…

— Labrinth

Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.

— Andy Biersack

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

— Charles Bukowski

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people…

— Steve Grand

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of…

— Katie Melua

The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free…

— Anohni

“August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would…

— Victoria Schwab

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before,…

— Jimmy Page

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the…

— Gervase Hughes

Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier,…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music.…

— Simon Cowell

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever…

— Lester Holt

Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create…

— Clifford A. Pickover

“Okay, you ready to face the music, lady?”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

— Wynonna Judd

I always listen to music.

— Mookie Betts

My songs are based on life.

— Melody Gardot

Just listen to how this song ends.

— Randy Travis

“I soaked my soul in Rock and Roll”

— Stuart Blythe

I like music that expresses what I think.

— Ludovico Einaudi

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

— Tennessee Williams