Music is Quotes · Page 43

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

— William Shakespeare

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

— Gustav Ejstes

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

— Cass McCombs

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

— Larry Coryell

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

— Doug McClure

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

— Rolonda Watts

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

— Nina Simone

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

— Erika M. Anderson

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

— John K. Samson

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

— Rainn Wilson

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let…

— Rick Wright

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

— Mac DeMarco

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music…

— Miranda Lambert

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.

— Ralf Hutter

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced…

— David Sanborn

I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time,…

— Michael Angelakos

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One thing about skating that I don't think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component…

— Vera Wang

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music…

— Skitch Henderson

I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening…

— Prince Royce

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother…

— Al Jardine

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

What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of:…

— Miguel

Daniel Nahmod's music is addictive and contagious... and is equally comfortable addressing your spirituality, your co-dependence and anger, your hungry stomach or…

— Mel White

I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have…

— Charles Lloyd

I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of…

— John Darnielle

With that explosion of dance music thing, there have been some downsides. We're lacking a little bit of connection right now. Pop…

— Kaskade

Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I…

— Jim Gaffigan

I think any information about any type of art form, it's always the right time. But since the last one, I could…

— Jeff Mills

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

— Randy Harrison

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

— Nobuo Uematsu

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them…

— Dwight Yoakam

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

— Charlotte Gray