Music is Quotes · Page 56

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

— Sam Roberts

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

— Isaac Stern

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the…

— Gioachino Rossini

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

— David Crosby

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

— Nas

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your…

— Sting

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

— Stephin Merritt

The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear…

— Ester Dean

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run…

— Pete Townshend

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds…

— Kasi Lemmons

I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting…

— Schoolboy Q

I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because…

— Taryn Manning

Music is amazing, because you get to take it into your office or your living room or wherever you get to know…

— Sarah Harmer

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…

— Kurt Weill

I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

— St. Lucia

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that…

— Justin Bieber

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make…

— Steve Vai

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the…

— Glen Hansard

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

— Elvis Costello

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

— Roland Joffe

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

— Brian Eno

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody…

— Jonny Greenwood

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

— DJ Spooky

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

— Andrew Eldritch

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are…

— Oscar Wilde

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

— Herbie Hancock

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come…

— Arca

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this…

— Bruno Mars

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

— Iggy Pop

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

— Mick Ronson

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

— Irving Berlin

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

— Jeff Buckley

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit…because without spirit, music is just notes.

— Steve Turre

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

— Elvis Costello

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more…

— Ryan Adams