Music Quote by Steve Reich

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

— Ennio Morricone

To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both…

— Warren Jeffs

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

Music is organized sound.

— Edgard Varese

Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow,…

— John Dieterich

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and…

— Hans Zimmer

Music is the crystallization of sound.

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

— Jean Michel Jarre

Music is not just a composition of sounds, it is a tool to enhancing scenes.

— Anette Sandberg

To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.

— Mike Patton

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

— Roman Jakobson