Music Quotes · Page 359

“Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

— Jodi Picoult

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

— Albert Schweitzer

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

— Daryl Hall

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

— Dan Bejar

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

— Chad Gilbert

Music plays the big role in my life.. It made happy moments even more better, and helped me when I felt like…

— Dejan Plackovic

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and…

— Amy Grant

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has…

— Illinois Jacquet

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

— Mary Steenburgen

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to…

— Rod Wave

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

— Les Claypool

“Medieval scholars held on to a classical Greek theory, according to which the movements of the stars across the sky create heavenly…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I…

— Atif Aslam

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what’s happening in the…

— Thom Yorke

Londoners deserve a great, free music festival with excellent bands from around the world. They don't need to be hectored about why…

— Munira Mirza

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the…

— Pharrell Williams

I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it…

— Benjamin Carson

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got…

— Andrew Wyatt

The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as…

— Ashley Monroe

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

— Gregory Orr

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

— Paul Rodgers

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

— Boyd K. Packer

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.

— Badshah

“Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.

— Everlast

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

— Lesley Garrett

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

Okay! We need to take it back in time, when music made us all unite,

— Jessie J

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

— Robert Fulghum

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

— Armaan Malik

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs