Music is Quotes · Page 36

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

— Carl Jung

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

— Leigh Hunt

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

— John Cage

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

— Steve Lacy

Music is the language of the heart without words.

— Shinichi Suzuki

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

— Jeff Beck

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

— Enrique Iglesias

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

— Jarvis Cocker

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon…

— Anthony Storr

The music is mine. Theres nothing to hide behind. Thats where you see the real person.

— Iwan Rheon

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit…

— David Ellefson

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because…

— Isaac Hayes

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I…

— Chaka Khan

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

— Eric Ripert

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile,…

— Michael Franti

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but…

— John Darnielle

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens…

— Amadou Bagayoko

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your…

— Sam Lipsyte

I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love…

— Quinn Shephard

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of…

— Ice Cube

Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely…

— Prince

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music…

— Jay Park

You can go watch everything so you can see a transition of someone who is coming into his own. That's what I…

— Young De

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,…

— Lawrence Wright

Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one…

— Dave Koz

Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are…

— Neil Portnow

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…

— Jerry Garcia

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace…

— Leonard Bernstein

Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But…

— Stephin Merritt

Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the…

— Nick Broomfield

The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to…

— Vijay Iyer

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

— Sun Ra

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

— Gylve Nagell

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

— Mel Brooks

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

— Carl Nielsen

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

— Shreya Ghoshal