Music Quotes · Page 551

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

— Kate Voegele

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

— Mike Birbiglia

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

— Lil Jon

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

— William Osler

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

— Rick Springfield

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

— George Strait

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

— Ira Gershwin

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

— Jerry Harrison

“In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz,…

— Lady Gaga

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

— K. Flay

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity…

— Richard Dawkins

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time…

— James Blake

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel…

— Don Campbell

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along…

— Bob Dylan

“Any day God removes His hand from you, you are finished. Your hope and trust is only in Him. Your confidence, your…

— Patience Johnson

My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll.…

— Sam Fender

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through…

— Robin Pecknold

When I came in from Paris recently, for some reason the guy from customs wanted to know what kind of music I…

— Fiona Apple

“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which…

— Milan Kundera

We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that…

— Alasdair MacLean

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but…

— Elvis Costello

I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through.…

— Adam Levine

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

— Edgar Allan Poe

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

— Luther Allison

Music prevents many people from going over the edge. Music is a pacifier. Music is medicinal.

— Anonymous

“If you are alone & start loving Music, it means you are in with yourself.”

— Abhishek Rai

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

— Ramin Djawadi

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

— Carmen McRae

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

— Selena Gomez

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

— Anonymous

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

— Bad Bunny

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

— Eric Hoffer

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

— Jill Paice

I think a capella and Christmas music just go really well together.

— Kirstin Maldonado

All of our songs, no matter what record they're on, mean a lot to us.

— Chad Gilbert

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

— H. L. Mencken