Music Quotes · Page 182

Music is the mirror of reality.

— Karl Marx

I make music in terms of collections.

— Saint Jhn

I'd love to work on art and music full time.

— Hunx

Music means a great deal to me.

— Christopher Guest

I like to make my own music and perform live.

— Rahul Vaidya

I never went to music school.

— Jessica Mauboy

Making music is a total hassle, really.

— Max Tundra

The man that hath no music in himself

— William Shakespeare

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

— The Irresistible Force

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

— Dan Hawkins

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

I just don't want to stay focused on music. I want to branch off and do other things.

— Trina

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

We're making the music that the people are asking us for.

— Bad Bunny

I never get that thing, everyone starts singing, then everyone else sings the same, and I'm like, 'How did you know the…

— Lee Evans

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one…

— Quincy Jones

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going…

— Greg Saunier

“You’ll forever be a part of me. A world without you in it is a song without the music. You need both…

— Karina Halle

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my…

— Chris Hardwick

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

— Beck

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego,…

— Lou Barlow

I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The…

— Mark Foster

“The entire incident might have been avoided had Willis more carefully selected the tracks in his blaring music playlist. “Sometimes it’s Diana…

— Brian Abrams

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…

— Gunther Schuller

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the…

— Ezra Pound

If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for…

— Debbie Reynolds

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course…

— Billy Crystal

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always…

— Bronagh Gallagher

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half…

— James Durbin

I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm…

— Mos Def

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The music industry has changed so much.

— Sisqo

I've never played it safe on my own music.

— Blake Shelton

Musicals are just funny to me.

— Julian Barratt

I go and see music all the time.

— Rachel Weisz

I'm not trained in music.

— Grimes