Music Quotes · Page 484

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

— Ambrose Bierce

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

— Andris Nelsons

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

— Laura Huxley

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

— Suzanne Farrell

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

— Montserrat Caballe

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

— Michael Nutter

In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.

— Shy Glizzy

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

— Sid Sriram

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:…

— Anonymous

“Your father is a wise man,” the cigar trader said. “Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we…

— Mark T. Sullivan

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to…

— Jain

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

— Jeff Gutt

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

— Tommy Chong

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even…

— Peter Bradley Adams

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really…

— Billy Joel

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things…

— Mariah Carey

No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point…

— Harry Connick, Jr

“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have…

— Hannah Harrington

“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood…

— Leo Tolstoy

Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day…

— Hiromi

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've…

— Christine Anderson

What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so…

— Eve

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

— Alasdair MacLean

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

— Debbie Harry

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

— Gerard Way

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

— Mase

Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all.

— Zaytoven

A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

— Jon Pardi

I've always loved music since I was a little kid.

— J Balvin

I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

— Lou Brutus

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

— Nell Freudenberger

There's always been a lot of musical talent in our family.

— Bear McCreary

For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.

— M. Jayachandran

Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.

— Brian Posehn

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

— Tobias Forge

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

— Laura Davies

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

— Sebastian Horsley

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

— Patrick Wilson