Music Quotes · Page 340

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

— Belinda Carlisle

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

— Mark Lanegan

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

— Julia Holter

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

— Chad Smith

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

— Hanns Eisler

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

— MC Hammer

“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

— Devin Townsend

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

— Anthony Kiedis

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines thru the mind of a musician, it manifests itself…

— Anonymous

Feel it when your body starts to rock. Baby you can't stop and the music's all you got. Come on now this…

— Nsync

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

— Jim James

“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!”

— Kamand Kojouri

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to…

— Michael Phelps

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the…

— Agnes de Mille

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

— Bob Dylan

I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to…

— Cheyenne Jackson

If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great…

— Harmony Korine

There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should…

— Selenis Leyva

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites…

— Marc Almond

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key…

— Christopher Meledandri

“The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop…

— Michael Kiwanuka

The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance

— Michel De Montaigne

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

— Charley Pride

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

— Charles Hazlewood

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

— Anonymous

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.

— Anoushka Shankar

Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.

— Rosanna Arquette

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

— Nelson Mandela

“The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.”

— William Wordsworth

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

— Daniel Powter

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

— Neal Shusterman

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

— Chad Gilbert

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

— Mike Dirnt

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.

— Asha Bhosle

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

— John Keats