Music Quotes · Page 526

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

— Charles Ives

“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.”

— David Mutti Clark

Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!

— Anonymous

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

— Steve Lacy

“We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.”

— Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles in 1962

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

— John Rzeznik

“I would shape the world to fit the music in my soul. I”

— S. Jae-Jones

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

— Richard King

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to…

— Holly Near

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

— Caroline Polachek

“Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord.…

— Red Tash

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music…

— Adnan Sami

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a…

— Charles Hazlewood

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with…

— Alicia Keys

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and,…

— Bruce Springsteen

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

— Irene Nemirovsky

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out…

— Holly Johnson

The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry…

— Chris Rea

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good…

— Ice Cube

I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is…

— Emanuel Ax

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to…

— Craig Zadan

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever…

— Mac DeMarco

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who…

— Alice Coltrane

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie…

— Amy Madigan

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

— Gerard Cox

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

— Tracy Chapman

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

— Bob Dylan

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Music is what makes this whole thing less painful.

— Baby

Our relationship was like my music, chopped up, screwed up.

— Tyler The Creator

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

— Judy Woodruff

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

— Penelope Spheeris

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

— John Petrucci

“Want to hear them do a real song?” I burst out.”

— Suzanne Collins

Life is like music, some high notes, some low notes, but always a beautiful song

— Jamie Leah

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

— Confucius

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

— Stephen Malkmus

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

— Eldar Djangirov

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

— Angel Haze

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

— Plato