Music Quotes · Page 145

“Truth is a melody composed of lying notes.”

— Dennis Vickers

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

— Jenni Rivera

“Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I love iTunes. I love downloading music.

— Ronan Keating

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I always felt independent of musical fashion.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

She laughed. My favorite music.

— Christopher Moore

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

— Sun Ra

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

— Ed Kowalczyk

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that wordfather.

— SangFroid Stalker

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

— Coleman Hawkins

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

— John Coltrane

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

— Billy Higgins

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

— David Hockney

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

— Kenneth Edmonds

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”

— Allyson McClain

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the…

— Sidney Lanier

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic…

— Miroslav Vitous

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can…

— Jerry Leiber

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles…

— Flea

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

— Cecilia Bartoli

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or…

— Irvine Welsh

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from,…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Why can't we have a concert with food? Your typical cooking demonstration, there's just no enthusiasm. There's no energy behind it. I…

— Guy Fieri

If I look back at the songs I was writing when I was effectively a child, there's a big contrast, so I've…

— Marika Hackman

“It was weird, ’cause there we were in Italy listening to people singing in German. The music was nice, though, and there…

— J.L. Merrow

“That's how we all use music. We put in on when we need it, and it's extremely important in our lives. You…

— Joe Satriani, Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir

All the music weve been releasing, its a lot this past year. So were busier working on the music, recording it than…

— Medeski Martin And Wood

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn…

— Mandy Moore

One thing that scares me a little bit is that I want people to like my music, but I think a lot…

— Porter Robinson

Music expressed what words cannot.

— Avieh Concepcion

I don't really like to explain my songs.

— Yanni

You can't touch music, but music can touch you

— Mordecai

I'm like a child with musical ADD.

— Mija

My songs are like my kids.

— Billy Joel

I literally cannot work without music.

— David Carson

If people don't like my music now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

The music is a continuing thing.

— Stanley Donwood