Music is Quotes · Page 15

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of…

— William Shakespeare

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

— Leonard Cohen

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

— Gordon Getty

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul…

— Stendhal

I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists…

— Willis Earl Beal

[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no…

— Kenny Chesney

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

— Tom Petty

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

— Abdullah Ibrahim

I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in…

— Laura Bell Bundy

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and…

— Narada Michael Walden

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

— Paul Winter

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under…

— Arthur Honegger

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend…

— Luke Ford

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

— Hugh Laurie

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous…

— John Lydon

I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or…

— Patrick Watson

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who…

— D-Pryde

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

— Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having…

— Nancy Meyers

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

— Mary Timony

I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection.

— Tristan Prettyman

My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music…

— Adrian Marcel