Music is Quotes · Page 47

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and…

— Taylor Swift

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's…

— L.A. Reid

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

— Frank Zappa

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

— Peter Gabriel

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful…

— Steven Tyler

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life… up until…

— John Lennon

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way,…

— Maynard James Keenan

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't…

— John Frusciante

I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we…

— John Lennon

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an…

— Stephan Jenkins

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…

— Christian McBride

I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able…

— Flying Lotus

Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music…

— Marvin Hamlisch

When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is…

— The Weeknd

Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through…

— Sean Paul

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still…

— Mahalia Jackson

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please…

— Mark Lanegan

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for…

— Kim Basinger

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I…

— Kanye West

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

— Lou Reed

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of…

— Marvin Gaye

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

— Ray Charles

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

— George Thorogood

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

— Bradford Cox

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it,…

— Fetty Wap

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind…

— Virgil Thomson

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I…

— Elvis Costello

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all…

— Justin Bieber

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

— Dave Attell

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

— Chuck Berry

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

— Wyclef Jean

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is…

— Rebecca West

To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people

— Eddy Grant

I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

— Howard Lawrence

Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

— Brian Wilson

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on…

— Chris Metzler

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam…

— Charlie Hunter

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer