Music Quotes · Page 73

I danced with passion to spite the music.

— Gelsey Kirkland

When we separate music from life we get art.

— John Cage

Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

— Teddy Pendergrass

It is a great life, this life of music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

“When you feel down or weary, play some music.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“With you, there's always music.”

— Elyssa Patrick

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

— Edgard Varese

I like songs that are simple.

— Syd Barrett

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

— Nora Fatehi

I believe that through music we can help heal the world.

— Michael Jackson

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

— Holly Near

I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.

— Mannie Fresh

I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

— Martina McBride

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

— Herbie Hancock

We all like all kinds of music. Like, I love Shania Twain.

— Rozonda Thomas

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

— Jade Bird

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed…

— Walter Becker

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at…

— John Cage

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

— Charles Bradley

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

— Leonard Cohen

“What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how…

— Paul Jarvis

We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas.

— Ted Dwane

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The…

— Frank Wildhorn

We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get…

— Erykah Badu

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being…

— Pat Metheny

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness,…

— Cornel West

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking…

— Viggo Mortensen

I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you…

— Mike Stern

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us.…

— Sri Chinmoy

Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The fun song how sad is it

— Fading_scars

I still don't know how to read music.

— Richard Manuel

I just play the guitar and write songs.

— John Denver

Music can get me through anything.

— Scott Wilson

I've always wanted to sing country music.

— Julianne Hough

I want to be taken seriously as a musician.

— Jonah Marais

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

— Bobby Shmurda

“The good times are killing me”

— Modest Mouse