Music is Quotes · Page 112

Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just…

— Ziggy Marley

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

— George Harrison

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

— Eminem

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing…

— Stephen Fry

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

— Pauline Oliveros

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

— Steven Pinker

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,…

— Talib Kweli

I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff…

— Alicia Keys

The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Mark Twain

For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about…

— Missy Mazzoli

To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world.

— Kate Bush

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Enrique Iglesias

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year…

— Justin Smith

Music is important for one's health.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

— Jonathan Jackson

Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So…

— Miranda Lambert

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with…

— George Szell

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that…

— Saul Williams

Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through…

— Sean Paul

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I…

— Little Richard

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

— Errollyn Wallen