Music Quotes · Page 53

I call architecture frozen music.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is the break between two notes.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Words are music, really.

— Tom Waits

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

— Tiny Tim

The nightingale is sovereign of song.

— Edmund Spenser

You can never stop discovering music.

— Rashida Jones

I grew up with music definitely.

— Emily Osment

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

— J. J. Cale

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

— George Crumb

I love songs that don't do what you expect them to.

— Raye

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”

— Yip Harburg

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

— Janina Gavankar

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

— Rhona Mitra

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

— Ron White

You can't make music on your own for your whole life.

— Jacob Collier

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

— Billy Bob Thornton

For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a…

— Taylor Kitsch

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is…

— Todd Rundgren

My mom was heavily in the arts; my entire family, they're all musicians and draw. They have much more artistic talent than…

— Kendrick Sampson

The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for…

— Simon Rattle

I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time. I always thought there was a ceiling with it.

— Becky Hill

I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of…

— Sturgill Simpson

I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,…

— Bear McCreary

I had a vision of bringing two cultures together, and I have said this in the past: my goal is to bring…

— Nora Fatehi

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to…

— Lenny Breau

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach…

— Patrick Stump

“But we, with our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,…

— Arthur O'Shaughnessy

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into…

— Squarepusher

Grime, in particular, is not really about pirate radio and local raves on top of pubs anymore. There are things I miss…

— Kano

Just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are grown M&M's are yellow And the light bulbs around…

— Lupe Fiasco

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in…

— Donovan

“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the…

— Anonymous

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

— Slowthai

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

I like songs. It's a weakness that I have.

— Mani Ratnam

I enjoy anything to do with music.

— Roger Glover

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

— Edgar Wright

“Music is any sound you want to go on and on.”

— Carl Sandburg

I'm a music fan, a fan of Bob Dylan.

— Superstar Billy Graham

“Every day is a dance deed.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita