Music is Quotes · Page 51

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

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

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and…

— Colbie Caillat

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation…

— Erykah Badu

Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly…

— Lucy Simon

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music…

— Carl Orff

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music…

— Kristoffer Rygg

To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power…

— Ray Comfort

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want…

— Richard Fleeshman

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the…

— Roy Ayers

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

— Jackson Pollock

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

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

— Mark Lanegan

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

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

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and…

— Bun B

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

— Norah Jones

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is…

— Van Morrison

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is…

— Carlos Santana

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

— Tori Amos

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

— Pinchas Zukerman

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is…

— Frank Zappa

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story...…

— Grey DeLisle

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

— David Nail

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

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

— Paul Horn