Music Quotes · Page 540

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

— James Joseph Sylvester

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

— Maurice Ravel

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

— Pythagoras

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

— Astrid S

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

— Joe Satriani

I think as I get older, I'm just going to start making smooth, new age music - no joke.

— Caroline Polachek

“I had books and music and the ocean to swim in.”

— Kim Harrington

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...

— Pat Metheny

I love the tradition of male coming-of-age films like 'Saturday Night Fever' or 'Mean Streets' or 'Go.' I love those films that…

— Max Joseph

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating…

— Kanye West

I feel like Roc Nation is a home. It's more than just about music with them. They create different avenues for you…

— Moneybagg Yo

I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and that was amazing. I absolutely loved my three years at Guildhall.

— George Blagden

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music.…

— Bakermat

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being…

— Deadmau5

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn…

— Babyface

I really love when music artists like Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson wear outrageous things. Obviously, if I wore something like that…

— Kevin McHale

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger…

— Ken Robinson

“Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places…

— Stephen Fry

I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs…

— Julianne Hough

“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to…

— Marcel Proust

... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it…

— Phil Lesh

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really…

— Creed Bratton

In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your…

— Marianne de Pierres

Quite a few of The Rolling Stones records have had a great honesty about them. In fact, I would put them side-by-side…

— Henry Mancini

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

— Stevie Wonder

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.

— Yuja Wang

I describe myself as boring; all I do is work, and I'm a music lover.

— Perez Hilton

I am equally capable of doing club songs, slow rock songs and any other kind as well.

— Ankit Tiwari

Sometimes listening to music is just the best way to ignore the world.

— Anonymous

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

— Harrdy Sandhu

Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

— Marvin Bagley III

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

— John McLaughlin

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

— Thia Megia

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

— Dave East

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

— Twyla Tharp

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

— Tom Anderson

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

— Parineeti Chopra