Music is Quotes · Page 42

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

— Jeff Lynne

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

— Wim Wenders

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

— Cass McCombs

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

— Mavis Staples

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

— Keith Jarrett

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

— Oliver Sacks

Music is something to live for. It is just for me, nobody else can take away from me.It makes me so happy…

— Eliza Doolittle

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

— Neil Diamond

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

— George Thorogood

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to…

— Anna Kamienska

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

— Leonard Slatkin

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

— Sarah Dessen

Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying…

— Brandy Norwood

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few…

— Jane Siberry

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind…

— Robert Schumann

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear…

— Jerry Garcia

I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and…

— Shaggy

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the…

— Sri Chinmoy

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that…

— Josh McDermitt

My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

— Dolly Parton

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on…

— Moby

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to…

— Nick Cave

I'm trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as…

— Sia Furler

Miles Davis had been in retirement for five or six years and he was coming out of retirement and he was looking…

— Marcus Miller

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

— Stephen Fry

There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in…

— Jonathan Coulton

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

— Edward Elgar

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

— Ian MacKaye

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

— Anonymous

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

— Paul Scofield

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

— Maynard Ferguson

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

— Big Boi