Music Quotes · Page 542

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

— Maria Mitchell

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.

— Khalid

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

— Pepe Romero

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

— Grimes

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

— Martin Luther

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.

— Jimmy Iovine

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have…

— Jason Mraz

“He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world…

— Antony John

I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to…

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want…

— Stevie Wonder

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed…

— Ian Rankin

I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.

— Lil Dicky

Well, I never made a record to be in the Christian market. So when I made my record it was to exist…

— Mat Kearney

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the…

— Brigham Young

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just…

— Mose Allison

I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel,…

— Nikola Tesla

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and…

— Rosanne Cash

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm…

— Sufjan Stevens

I feel like music is, you know, made to inspire, to heal, and to cope with. So, I hope that when my…

— Saweetie

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of…

— Anonymous

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

— Brian Eno

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

— Pat Metheny

I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

— Ethan Hawke

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

— Matthew Bourne

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

— Tomas Luis de Victoria

“The music came on and I was amused to hear Pitbull singing Mr. Right Now.”

— N.M. Silber

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

— Saoirse Ronan

Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

— Carlene Carter

Nobody know but I got music to announce ya, Blo Blocker mama call me papa, I stay on toppa.

— Will I Am

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

— D. H. Lawrence

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music.

— LeAnn Rimes

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

— Donal Henahan

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

— Ravyn Lenae