Music Quotes · Page 529

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.

— Aaron Copland

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

— Shawn Fanning

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

— Kamasi Washington

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

— Miles Davis

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

— Confucius

“Music is a language that requires no language.”

— Christian Ocampo

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

— Aaron Watson

'The Light in the Piazza' is one of my top three musicals of all time.

— Joshua Henry

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then,…

— Aaron Sorkin

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

— Katy Perry

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

— Anonymous

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.

— Aaron Watson

“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,…

— TheBakaViolinist

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

— Dave Matthews

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew…

— Enrique Iglesias

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom…

— Colin Meloy

“I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music. That…

— Haruki Murakami

I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was…

— Darius Rucker

My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

— Dolly Parton

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good.…

— Michael Azerrad

When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck…

— Jason C. Miller

I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual,…

— David Toop

I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief…

— David Carson

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

— Erik Satie

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

— Mabel

“Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.”

— Rachel Harris

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

— Obie Trice

All that I'm concerned about is that my fans understand & that they like the music.

— Greyson Chance

“The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.”

— Mark Rice

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

— Adele

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

— Michael Jackson

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

— Bryan Ferry

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

— Anne-Marie

When I was little, if the music was on I'd start to dance.

— Demond Wilson

We are all Christians in our band, and it comes out in our music. We want to be honest.

— Lacey Sturm

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

— Enya

“Music makes promises to the heart that no mere song could ever fulfill.”

— Jessa Callaver

We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.

— Marty Stuart