In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through… — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media. — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni Copy Share Image
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your… — Tyga Copy Share Image
A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,… — Yuja Wang Copy Share Image
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should… — John Maus Copy Share Image
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Our music is always a reflection of where we are in a society. That's what enables so many people to do what… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about.… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
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![“It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d0/joseph-campbell-300_art_it-music-has-an-awakening-function-life_829251.jpg)
