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| Plato | Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. | 101 |
| Bob Marley | One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.  | 101 |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. | 101 |
| Lord Byron | There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. | 101 |
| Victor Hugo | Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. | 101 |
| Keith Richards | Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. | 101 |
| Adele | I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears. | 101 |
| Bono | Music can change the world because it can change people. | 101 |
| John Lydon | Live music is healthy. | 101 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked. | 101 |
| Ani DiFranco | I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. | 101 |
| Barry White | I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. | 101 |
| Bernie Siegel | Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. | 101 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. | 101 |
| Billy Joel | I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. | 101 |
| Buddy Rich | I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. | 101 |
| Cam Newton | Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. | 101 |
| Dick Clark | Music is the soundtrack of your life. | 101 |
| Edith Piaf | To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music. | 101 |
| Gustavo Dudamel | It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. | 101 |
| Henny Youngman | Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. | 101 |
| Henry Miller | Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. | 101 |
| Igor Stravinsky | The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. | 101 |
| Ishmael Beah | I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful. | 101 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. | 101 |
| Karen DeCrow | No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. | 101 |
| Kid Rock | I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers. | 101 |
| Lawrence Durrell | Music is only love looking for words. | 101 |
| Lenny Kravitz | Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. | 101 |
| Louis Armstrong | Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. | 101 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. | 101 |
| Neko Case | I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. | 101 |
| Neneh Cherry | I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. | 101 |
| Nick Clegg | My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. | 101 |
| Obie Trice | But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th. | 101 |
| Ori Gersht | I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions. | 101 |
| Oscar Isaac | I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. | 101 |
| Pat Metheny | For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. | 101 |
| Paula Poundstone | I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. | 101 |
| Phil Collins | Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. | 101 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding. | 101 |
| R. Kelly | I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. | 101 |
| Ravi Shankar | I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going. | 101 |
| Ray Charles | I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water. | 101 |
| Reba McEntire | For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. | 101 |
| Roy Ayers | Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life. | 101 |
| Sheryl Crow | Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life. | 101 |
| Stanley Kubrick | A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. | 101 |
| Stefan Sagmeister | I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them. | 101 |
| Steven Tyler | Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it. | 101 |
| Tracy Chapman | The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity. | 101 |
| Tyler Joseph | Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have. | 101 |
| Vince Neil | I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. | 101 |
| Vir Das | I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day. | 101 |
| Walter Savage Landor | Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | 101 |
| Yolanda Adams | There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.' | 101 |
| Youssou N'Dour | World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great. | 101 |
| Zedd | I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment. | 101 |
| Aaron Copland | So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. | 101 |
| Andre Rieu | Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. | 101 |
| Berry Gordy | Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. | 101 |
| Berthold Auerbach | Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. | 101 |
| Bootsy Collins | Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully. | 101 |
| Charlie Haden | The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. | 101 |
| Chet Faker | Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it. | 101 |
| Damon Albarn | Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. | 101 |
| Daniel Barenboim | When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace. | 101 |
| Daniel Ek | At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music. | 101 |
| Daron Malakian | Music is pretty much all I do. | 101 |
| Edgar Winter | Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. | 101 |
| Esperanza Spalding | If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. | 101 |
| Frederick Reines | My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. | 101 |
| Harmony Korine | You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting. | 101 |
| Helen Reddy | My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. | 101 |
| Henry Williamson | Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. | 101 |
| Illinois Jacquet | The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. | 101 |
| Isaac Stern | Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. | 101 |
| Keith Jarrett | Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window. | 101 |
| Kiesza | You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear. | 101 |
| Kurt Masur | The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. | 101 |
| Leon Bridges | I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am. | 101 |
| Lucy Hale | The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.' | 101 |
| Matisyahu | Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion. | 101 |
| Miguel | Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. | 101 |
| Mika | Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. | 101 |
| Nneka | I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar. | 101 |
| Peter Gabriel | One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product. | 101 |
| Peter Tork | Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. | 101 |
| Rick Astley | My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else. | 101 |
| Ruta Sepetys | New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. | 101 |
| Sam Hunt | I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that. | 101 |
| Schoolboy Q | Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle. | 101 |
| Shawn Amos | Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American. | 101 |
| Steve Aoki | The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism. | 101 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. | 101 |
| Sun Ra | Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society. | 101 |
| Suzanne Farrell | As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. | 101 |
| T. J. Miller | There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. | 101 |
| Tiesto | A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one. | 101 |
| A. N. Wilson | It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. | 101 |
| Aimee Mann | There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. | 101 |
| Ashley Wagner | I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl. | 101 |
| Banks | I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing. | 101 |
| Benny Goodman | Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. | 101 |
| Bobby Vinton | Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. | 101 |
| Bryan Ferry | You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? | 101 |
| Carlisle Floyd | I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. | 101 |
| Chino Moreno | I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music. | 101 |
| Chris Lowe | Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. | 101 |
| David Sanborn | Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment. | 101 |
| Diane Paulus | Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. | 101 |
| Donald O'Connor | It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away. | 101 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Jr. | The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. | 101 |
| Gary Carter | I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. | 101 |
| Gary Wright | Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. | 101 |
| Gates McFadden | I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. | 101 |
| George Thorogood | I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know. | 101 |
| Glenn Danzig | Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record. | 101 |
| Jamie Foxx | In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? | 101 |
| John Coltrane | I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music. | 101 |
| Kim Dickens | I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on. | 101 |
| Kina Grannis | In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist. | 101 |
| Lara St. John | What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? | 101 |
| Les Baxter | Any good music must be an innovation. | 101 |
| Lesley Garrett | That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. | 101 |
| Lianne La Havas | I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing. | 101 |
| Margaret D. Nadauld | Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made. | 101 |
| Marvin Sapp | Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. | 101 |
| Paul Hindemith | There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. | 101 |
| Peabo Bryson | Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. | 101 |
| Peggy Fleming | Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program. | 101 |
| Peter Criss | For me, music is all about emotion and attitude. | 101 |
| Randy Travis | I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. | 101 |
| Romeo Santos | I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics. | 101 |
| Scott Stapp | The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right. | 101 |
| Simon Beaufoy | As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. | 101 |
| Steve Reich | I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other. | 101 |
| Tre Cool | I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. | 101 |
| Trombone Shorty | There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it. | 101 |
| Alice Englert | It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music. | 101 |
| Andres Segovia | The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. | 101 |
| Billy Sheehan | Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better. | 101 |
| Cecil Taylor | You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. | 101 |
| Chaka Khan | To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music. | 101 |
| Charles Frazier | If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. | 101 |
| Colbie Caillat | Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about. | 101 |
| Connie Britton | For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done! | 101 |
| Dan Reynolds | But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to. | 101 |
| E. Y. Harburg | Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. | 101 |
| Hector Berlioz | Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. | 101 |
| Howard Dietz | Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. | 101 |
| Hugh Hopper | Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. | 101 |
| Jessica Raine | After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important. | 101 |
| John Hodgman | People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house. | 101 |
| Kim Carnes | Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else. | 101 |
| Larry Norman | I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music. | 101 |
| Michael Tippett | Music is a performance and needs the audience. | 101 |
| Mike Epps | On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money. | 101 |
| Miroslav Vitous | So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. | 101 |
| Paulina Rubio | My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. | 101 |
| Sophie Kerr | If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. | 101 |
| Thomas Beecham | Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. | 101 |
| Tito Jackson | Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world. | 101 |
| Tom Morello | Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there. | 101 |
| Tom Wopat | It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist. | 101 |
| Allen Toussaint | My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. | 101 |
| Ann Demeulemeester | Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. | 101 |
| Arvo Part | I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. | 101 |
| Belinda Carlisle | I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. | 101 |
| Ben Saunders | When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles. | 101 |
| Billy Strayhorn | All music is beautiful. | 101 |
| Chelsea Leyland | The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard. | 101 |
| Jay Griffiths | Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. | 101 |
| Marvin Hamlisch | I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes. | 101 |
| Peter Warlock | All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. | 101 |
| Pritam Chakraborty | There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about. | 101 |
| Robert Moog | One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music. | 101 |
| Sarah Churchwell | Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. | 101 |
| Susannah McCorkle | People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music. | 101 |
| Bill Monroe | Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. | 101 |
| Buddy Guy | I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. | 101 |
| Charles King | You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together. | 101 |
| Charlie Byrd | Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. | 101 |
| Dexter Holland | I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. | 101 |
| James Blake | We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect. | 101 |
| Jeff Lynne | Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it. | 101 |
| Luke Mably | I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror. | 101 |
| Maxwell | Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away. | 101 |
| Michael Kiwanuka | If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire. | 101 |
| Michelle Kwan | What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music. | 101 |
| Miles Teller | I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music. | 101 |
| Adam Hicks | If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music. | 101 |
| Alex North | Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. | 101 |
| Ashthon Jones | I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you. | 101 |
| Charles Rosen | A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. | 101 |
| MC Hammer | The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. | 101 |
| Mireille Mathieu | Music is the best way for me to say I love you. | 101 |
| Sidney Lanier | Music is love in search of a word. | 101 |
| Juanes | When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. | 101 |
| Maya Beiser | 'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals. | 101 |
| Alban Berg | Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. | 101 |
| Ali Akbar Khan | Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. | 101 |
| Jerry Leiber | 'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. | 101 |
| Malcolm Arnold | Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. | 101 |
| Janel Parrish | Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. | 101 |
| Jez Butterworth | I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later. | 101 |
| Maynard Ferguson | Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. | 101 |
| Johannes Rau | But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. | 101 |
| James Joseph Sylvester | Mathematics is the music of reason. | 101 |
| James Gates Percival | The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. | 101 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Without music, life would be a mistake. | 102 |
| Jimi Hendrix | Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. | 102 |
| Pope Francis | Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. | 102 |
| Prince | Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool. | 102 |
| T. S. Eliot | You are the music while the music lasts. | 102 |
| Nas | Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. | 102 |
| Alicia Keys | Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing. | 102 |
| Benjamin Britten | It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. | 102 |
| Billie Holiday | No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. | 102 |
| Bob Newhart | I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. | 102 |
| Carole King | I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing. | 102 |
| Christopher Lee | I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. | 102 |
| David Gilmour | I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound. | 102 |
| Debbie Harry | I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it. | 102 |
| Denis Diderot | When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. | 102 |
| Ellie Goulding | I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something. | 102 |
| Enrique Iglesias | Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. | 102 |
| Eric Clapton | When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in. | 102 |
| Faith Hill | Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. | 102 |
| Felix Mendelssohn | People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. | 102 |
| Flea | When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. | 102 |
| Florence Welch | I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism. | 102 |
| Geddy Lee | If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus. | 102 |
| George Gershwin | True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. | 102 |
| Grace Slick | Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. | 102 |
| Greg Graffin | Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky. | 102 |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Where words fail, music speaks. | 102 |
| Herbie Hancock | Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. | 102 |
| Heston Blumenthal | I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. | 102 |
| Hunter Hayes | I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do. | 102 |
| Ian MacKaye | I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it. | 102 |
| Iggy Azalea | I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing. | 102 |
| Igor Stravinsky | My music is best understood by children and animals. | 102 |
| Ingmar Bergman | Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. | 102 |
| Jill Scott | Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. | 102 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. | 102 |
| Ken Burns | Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. | 102 |
| Louis Armstrong | There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. | 102 |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. | 102 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. | 102 |
| Marilyn vos Savant | Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. | 102 |
| Marc Anthony | I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it. | 102 |
| Michael Stipe | Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. | 102 |
| Neneh Cherry | For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing. | 102 |
| Nikki Reed | If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope. | 102 |
| Pablo Casals | Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. | 102 |
| Paul Simon | Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. | 102 |
| Pete Townshend | I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' | 102 |
| Pina Bausch | When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said. | 102 |
| Pitbull | Music is my hustle. | 102 |
| R. Kelly | Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. | 102 |
| Robbie Williams | I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album. | 102 |
| Rod Stewart | You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. | 102 |
| Roy Ayers | The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. | 102 |
| Rufus Wainwright | Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. | 102 |
| Sharon Jones | For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy. | 102 |
| Skrillex | Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. | 102 |
| Terry Riley | Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. | 102 |
| Tucker Max | Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. | 102 |
| Vanilla Ice | I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story. | 102 |
| Virgil Thomson | I look at you and I write down what I hear. | 102 |
| Walter Murch | I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. | 102 |
| Waylon Jennings | Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. | 102 |
| Wynton Marsalis | Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. | 102 |
| Yanni | New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. | 102 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. | 102 |
| Zack de la Rocha | I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition. | 102 |
| A. J. McLean | Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. | 102 |
| Aaron Copland | To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. | 102 |
| Birdman | We never had a billionaire brand in music; the closest thing we had was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson sold 750 million records. I think we're gonna set the tone for other youngsters to make more money and see that a billion dollars can be accomplished. | 102 |
| Boethius | Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. | 102 |
| Brandon Flowers | I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road. | 102 |
| Bruce Beresford | It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. | 102 |
| Bryan Adams | Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. | 102 |
| Burning Spear | Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general. | 102 |
| Charlie Parker | They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. | 102 |
| Colm Toibin | I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. | 102 |
| Damon Albarn | Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. | 102 |
| Donny Osmond | Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore. | 102 |
| Dylan Lauren | When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. | 102 |
| Eric Church | I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. | 102 |
| Faith Evans | I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do. | 102 |
| Gary Allan | To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music. | 102 |
| Giorgio Moroder | Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. | 102 |
| Graham Nash | I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. | 102 |
| Hedi Slimane | Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically. | 102 |
| Isaac Stern | Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. | 102 |
| Jane Wiedlin | I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again. | 102 |
| Kim Dotcom | Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music. | 102 |
| Lisa Loeb | There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. | 102 |
| Mac Miller | I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me. | 102 |
| Matisyahu | When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about. | 102 |
| Michael Franti | Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. | 102 |
| Merle Haggard | The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. | 102 |
| Ne-Yo | Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good. | 102 |
| Park Chan-wook | When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. | 102 |
| Peter Tork | Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards. | 102 |
| Phil Spector | I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. | 102 |
| Psy | The world's most famous and popular language is music. | 102 |
| Robert Fripp | Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band. | 102 |
| Scott Weiland | Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. | 102 |
| Steve Albini | Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything. | 102 |
| Steve Aoki | Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt. | 102 |
| Summer Sanders | I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it. | 102 |
| T. J. Miller | There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. | 102 |
| Tariq Ramadan | Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it. | 102 |
| Tom Hooper | I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. | 102 |
| Trey Anastasio | The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. | 102 |
| Vusi Mahlasela | I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on. | 102 |
| Afrojack | I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting. | 102 |
| Anton Corbijn | Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. | 102 |
| Avicii | My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. | 102 |
| Bob Geldof | I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. | 102 |
| Bryan Ferry | But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. | 102 |
| Charlie Hunnam | I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music. | 102 |
| Christina Milian | I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. | 102 |
| Gary Wright | Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. | 102 |
| Glenn Danzig | You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. | 102 |
| Harlan Howard | Country music is three chords and the truth. | 102 |
| Josh Homme | If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real. | 102 |
| Koko Taylor | Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do. | 102 |
| LaToya Jackson | Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me. | 102 |
| Phil Daniels | 'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. | 102 |
| Robin Gibb | Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. | 102 |
| Scotty McCreery | You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it. | 102 |
| Shinichi Suzuki | Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart. | 102 |
| Shreya Ghoshal | Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants. | 102 |
| Steven Adler | Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. | 102 |
| The Weeknd | I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me. | 102 |
| Tyga | Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it. | 102 |
| Agnes Obel | Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share. | 102 |
| Austin Mahone | Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance. | 102 |
| Billy Sheehan | Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. | 102 |
| Dan Reynolds | I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things. | 102 |
| Donna Summer | God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful. | 102 |
| Doug E. Fresh | I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans. | 102 |
| Gotye | A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? | 102 |
| Jacques Barzun | Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. | 102 |
| Janelle Monae | One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique. | 102 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. | 102 |
| Ronnie James Dio | Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation. | 102 |
| Steve Burns | Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. | 102 |
| Thomas Beecham | The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. | 102 |
| Clarence Clemons | In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing. | 102 |
| Dennis Wilson | The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. | 102 |
| Joan Miro | I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. | 102 |
| Marvin Hamlisch | I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. | 102 |
| Ross Lynch | When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to music or play music. I'm basically always playing music, even if I'm not stressed! | 102 |
| Sean Berdy | I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents. | 102 |
| Toru Takemitsu | Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. | 102 |
| Dizzy Gillespie | I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. | 102 |
| Jake Bugg | I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. | 102 |
| Marsha Norman | If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. | 102 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music. | 102 |
| Jimmy Carl Black | I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. | 102 |
| Arthur Rubinstein | To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. | 102 |
| John Shelton Reed | Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. | 102 |
| Joshua Roman | It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is. | 102 |
| James Joseph Sylvester | May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. | 102 |
| Aldous Huxley | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. | 103 |
| Kurt Cobain | My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. | 103 |
| Leonard Cohen | Music is the emotional life of most people. | 103 |
| Andrea Bocelli | Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. | 103 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. | 103 |
| Bo Burnham | There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. | 103 |
| Bonnie Raitt | I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. | 103 |
| David Lynch | Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. | 103 |
| Diane Kruger | I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. | 103 |
| Eddie Van Halen | Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. | 103 |
| Ellie Goulding | I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. | 103 |
| Erykah Badu | What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. | 103 |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. | 103 |
| Flavor Flav | I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing. | 103 |
| Franz Liszt | The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. | 103 |
| Garth Brooks | I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. | 103 |
| George Gershwin | I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. | 103 |
| George Jean Nathan | Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. | 103 |
| George Strait | You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. | 103 |
| Gustav Mahler | If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. | 103 |
| Gustavo Dudamel | I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. | 103 |
| Heinrich Heine | When words leave off, music begins. | 103 |
| Herbie Hancock | Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. | 103 |
| Hunter Hayes | I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music. | 103 |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah. | 103 |
| James Hetfield | I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. | 103 |
| Jerry Garcia | I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. | 103 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting. | 103 |
| Kate Bush | I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. | 103 |
| Kid Rock | I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them. | 103 |
| Lauryn Hill | Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! | 103 |
| Leonard Bernstein | This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. | 103 |
| Levon Helm | We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. | 103 |
| Louis Armstrong | All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. | 103 |
| Miles Davis | For me, music and life are all about style. | 103 |
| Miranda Lambert | My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability. | 103 |
| Missy Elliott | Music should be your escape. | 103 |
| Pitbull | I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it. | 103 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. | 103 |
| Pythagoras | There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. | 103 |
| Ravi Shankar | I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music. | 103 |
| Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. | 103 |
| River Phoenix | Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right. | 103 |
| Shania Twain | Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. | 103 |
| Skrillex | To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! | 103 |
| Stephen Sondheim | I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. | 103 |
| Talib Kweli | My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl. | 103 |
| Tommy Lee | I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. | 103 |
| Trey Songz | I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim. | 103 |
| Ville Valo | Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. | 103 |
| Walter Lippmann | It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. | 103 |
| Walter Pater | All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. | 103 |
| will.i.am | The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. | 103 |
| Wolfman Jack | Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper. | 103 |
| Wynonna Judd | My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. | 103 |
| Yanni | I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions. | 103 |
| Young Jeezy | Music is how you feel. | 103 |
| A. R. Rahman | For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me. | 103 |
| Agnes de Mille | The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. | 103 |
| Andre Rieu | We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life. | 103 |
| Avril Lavigne | Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences. | 103 |
| Brian May | I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp. | 103 |
| Bruce Dickinson | Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. | 103 |
| Dan Hill | If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run. | 103 |
| Damon Albarn | I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it. | 103 |
| David Guetta | My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation. | 103 |
| Dimebag Darrell | Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. | 103 |
| Elizabeth Berkley | I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. | 103 |
| Frank Iero | The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. | 103 |
| Herb Alpert | I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. | 103 |
| John Legend | To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun. | 103 |
| John Williams | As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. | 103 |
| Kris Kristofferson | The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. | 103 |
| Krist Novoselic | We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. | 103 |
| Nat Wolff | Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. | 103 |
| Patsy Cline | The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music. | 103 |
| Rachel Platten | I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert. | 103 |
| Robert Englund | I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films. | 103 |
| Robert Fripp | If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? | 103 |
| Tiesto | At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America. | 103 |
| Trey Anastasio | As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music. | 103 |
| Afrika Bambaataa | All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music. | 103 |
| Afrojack | My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love. | 103 |
| Avicii | When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke. | 103 |
| Brendan Fraser | I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood. | 103 |
| Calvin Harris | There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music. | 103 |
| Chris Isaak | I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life. | 103 |
| David Coverdale | You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. | 103 |
| Dhani Jones | There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. | 103 |
| George Thorogood | This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do. | 103 |
| Jared Leto | Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience. | 103 |
| John Coltrane | When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups. | 103 |
| Julian Lennon | As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. | 103 |
| Lars von Trier | When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. | 103 |
| Maurice Ravel | Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. | 103 |
| Robin Gibb | The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. | 103 |
| Randy Travis | I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike. | 103 |
| Alison Krauss | You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else. | 103 |
| Andres Segovia | Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. | 103 |
| Chrisette Michele | Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride. | 103 |
| Gotye | Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. | 103 |
| Tyrese Gibson | It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music! | 103 |
| Dave Lombardo | I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer. | 103 |
| Joan Miro | What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. | 103 |
| Judith Viorst | Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. | 103 |
| Michelle Branch | I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips. | 103 |
| Mickey Hart | There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. | 103 |
| Richard D. James | It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. | 103 |
| Charles Mingus | I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. | 103 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way. | 103 |
| Marcel Marceau | Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. | 103 |
| Keith Richards | If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. | 104 |
| Nas | I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. | 104 |
| Albert Schweitzer | There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. | 104 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. | 104 |
| John Lydon | I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. | 104 |
| Action Bronson | I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to. | 104 |
| Alice Cooper | City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. | 104 |
| Alvin Ailey | Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. | 104 |
| B. B. King | I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music. | 104 |
| Bill Cosby | Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. | 104 |
| Billie Holiday | Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. | 104 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. | 104 |
| Billy Joel | Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? | 104 |
| Bonnie Raitt | Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music. | 104 |
| Cat Stevens | I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. | 104 |
| Claude Debussy | Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. | 104 |
| Dick Dale | Every song is like a painting. | 104 |
| Eddie Van Halen | We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. | 104 |
| Etta James | I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. | 104 |
| Frank Zappa | Music is always a commentary on society. | 104 |
| Franz Liszt | Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. | 104 |
| Fred Durst | I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. | 104 |
| George Strait | I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. | 104 |
| Gerard Way | Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. | 104 |
| Gucci Mane | A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to. | 104 |
| Hayley Williams | I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. | 104 |
| Howard Schultz | Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry. | 104 |
| Jack White | I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. | 104 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. | 104 |
| John Hughes | I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists. | 104 |
| Joni Mitchell | I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. | 104 |
| Kelly Rowland | Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything. | 104 |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. | 104 |
| Lauryn Hill | I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody. | 104 |
| Liam Gallagher | You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better. | 104 |
| Mary Oliver | I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. | 104 |
| Maynard James Keenan | Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. | 104 |
| Nate Ruess | I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands. | 104 |
| Nina Simone | To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. | 104 |
| Pat Conroy | Without music, life is a journey through a desert. | 104 |
| Peter De Vries | The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. | 104 |
| Phillips Brooks | The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. | 104 |
| Roy H. Williams | In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music. | 104 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. | 104 |
| Steven Van Zandt | Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! | 104 |
| Theo James | I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays. | 104 |
| Tom Petty | When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. | 104 |
| Victoria Wood | Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. | 104 |
| Virgil Thomson | I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. | 104 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. | 104 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. | 104 |
| Aaron Copland | The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' | 104 |
| Aretha Franklin | Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening. | 104 |
| Brandon Boyd | Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money. | 104 |
| Brian May | The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are. | 104 |
| Bruce Dickinson | With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable. | 104 |
| Bryan Adams | Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job. | 104 |
| Corita Kent | That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. | 104 |
| Daniel Barenboim | An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism. | 104 |
| David Guetta | If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ. | 104 |
| Jean Paul | Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. | 104 |
| Joe Strummer | To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it. | 104 |
| John Legend | Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears. | 104 |
| Krist Novoselic | When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music. | 104 |
| Lisa Loeb | I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. | 104 |
| Moby | A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. | 104 |
| Stacy Schiff | I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates. | 104 |
| Sun Ra | Music is a language, you see, a universal language. | 104 |
| Ace Frehley | I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth. | 104 |
| Afrika Bambaataa | What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people. | 104 |
| Avicii | Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. | 104 |
| Bryan Ferry | Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. | 104 |
| Christina Milian | That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice. | 104 |
| Jimmy Page | I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. | 104 |
| Jonathan Davis | It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. | 104 |
| Randy Travis | To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do. | 104 |
| Sade Adu | Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. | 104 |
| Steve Lacy | Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. | 104 |
| Steve Sabol | Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. | 104 |
| Carrie Ann Inaba | I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. | 104 |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. | 104 |
| Marvin Gaye | I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. | 104 |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone. | 104 |
| Jackson Browne | I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. | 104 |
| Baruch Spinoza | One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. | 105 |
| Clint Eastwood | If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. | 105 |
| Kendrick Lamar | I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now. | 105 |
| Martin Luther | Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. | 105 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. | 105 |
| Steve Martin | Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. | 105 |
| Al Green | The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness. | 105 |
| Beth Ditto | I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine. | 105 |
| Billy Wilder | He has Van Gogh's ear for music. | 105 |
| CeeLo Green | Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. | 105 |
| Christian Louboutin | Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. | 105 |
| Courtney Love | Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! | 105 |
| David Byrne | The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. | 105 |
| Dr. Dre | I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. | 105 |
| Ellie Goulding | I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. | 105 |
| Elton John | Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. | 105 |
| Eric Clapton | Music became a healer for me. | 105 |
| Garth Brooks | True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. | 105 |
| Iggy Pop | 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. | 105 |
| Jack White | With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. | 105 |
| James Franco | There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers. | 105 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. | 105 |
| Karl Lagerfeld | The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. | 105 |
| Katherine Jenkins | I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea. | 105 |
| Kenny G | I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead. | 105 |
| Levon Helm | If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out. | 105 |
| Miranda Lambert | I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music. | 105 |
| Neil Young | I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. | 105 |
| Peter Steele | I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. | 105 |
| Stevie Wonder | Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. | 105 |
| Thom Yorke | I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. | 105 |
| Van Morrison | You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. | 105 |
| William Congreve | Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. | 105 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. | 105 |
| Zayn Malik | We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it. | 105 |
| A. R. Rahman | My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything. | 105 |
| Damien Rice | When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence. | 105 |
| Gary Cherone | I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. | 105 |
| James Taylor | I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport. | 105 |
| Jane McGonigal | Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument. | 105 |
| LeAnn Rimes | I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own. | 105 |
| Leighton Meester | I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing. | 105 |
| Afrika Bambaataa | How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white. | 105 |
| Jack Black | We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it. | 105 |
| Jenni Rivera | When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. | 105 |
| Jonathan Davis | I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain. | 105 |
| Maurice Ravel | The only love affair I have ever had was with music. | 105 |
| Janelle Monae | I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic. | 105 |
| Joey Ramone | When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. | 105 |
| Ronnie James Dio | The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? | 105 |
| Jackson Browne | Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. | 105 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it. | 106 |
| Eminem | Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. | 106 |
| Vera Wang | I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. | 106 |
| Snoop Dogg | I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it. | 106 |
| Brian Eno | Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. | 106 |
| Bruno Mars | Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. | 106 |
| Claude Debussy | Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. | 106 |
| Dr. Dre | I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me. | 106 |
| Eddie Van Halen | If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. | 106 |
| Edith Sitwell | My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. | 106 |
| Erykah Badu | Music and the music business are two different things. | 106 |
| Frank Zappa | There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. | 106 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. | 106 |
| Herbert Spencer | Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. | 106 |
| Herbie Hancock | Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. | 106 |
| Iggy Pop | The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.' | 106 |
| Igor Stravinsky | Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. | 106 |
| Jack White | I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do. | 106 |
| James Franco | Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it. | 106 |
| Kin Hubbard | Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. | 106 |
| Lawrence Durrell | Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. | 106 |
| Lenny Kravitz | I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing? | 106 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. | 106 |
| Mel Brooks | A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. | 106 |
| Mick Jagger | I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted. | 106 |
| Missy Elliott | Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. | 106 |
| Nick Cave | The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. | 106 |
| Nina Simone | I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. | 106 |
| Noel Gallagher | Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. | 106 |
| Ozzy Osbourne | All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? | 106 |
| Paul McCartney | Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. | 106 |
| R. Kelly | When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. | 106 |
| Quentin Tarantino | I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. | 106 |
| Ray Charles | Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. | 106 |
| Salma Hayek | I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. | 106 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. | 106 |
| Thom Yorke | I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. | 106 |
| Truman Capote | To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. | 106 |
| Tyler Cowen | In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. | 106 |
| Victoria Wood | Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. | 106 |
| Wiz Khalifa | I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it. | 106 |
| Wynton Marsalis | Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. | 106 |
| Yancy Butler | My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. | 106 |
| Young Jeezy | I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore. | 106 |
| Zaha Hadid | I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. | 106 |
| Zooey Deschanel | One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. | 106 |
| Alison Gopnik | The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything. | 106 |
| Ha-Joon Chang | Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for. | 106 |
| John O'Donohue | The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. | 106 |
| M.I.A. | I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music. | 106 |
| Michael Franti | Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. | 106 |
| Moby | For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. | 106 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. | 106 |
| Jack Black | I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me. | 106 |
| Jenni Rivera | Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice. | 106 |
| John Cage | When we separate music from life we get art. | 106 |
| Jonathan Davis | When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. | 106 |
| Max Heindel | Music is the soul of language. | 106 |
| Matthew Gray Gubler | I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received. | 106 |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart. | 106 |
| Martin Mull | Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. | 106 |
| John Lithgow | Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. | 106 |
| Kanye West | I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever. | 107 |
| Bjork | Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do. | 107 |
| Gottfried Leibniz | Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. | 107 |
| Prince | What's missing from pop music is danger. | 107 |
| Abraham Maslow | A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. | 107 |
| Jay-Z | Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you. | 107 |
| William Wordsworth | For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. | 107 |
| Brian Eno | Most game music is based on loops effectively. | 107 |
| Conrad Hall | Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. | 107 |
| Dave Grohl | Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. | 107 |
| Eddie Van Halen | It's always about the music, never about anything else. | 107 |
| Eddie Vedder | I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. | 107 |
| Eric Clapton | Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. | 107 |
| Etta James | You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. | 107 |
| F. Sionil Jose | Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. | 107 |
| Fetty Wap | I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. | 107 |
| George Strait | I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it. | 107 |
| Ice T | I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. | 107 |
| Ina Garten | I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. | 107 |
| Jim Davis | There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. | 107 |
| John Hughes | I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had! | 107 |
| Katherine Jenkins | I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. | 107 |
| Ken Robinson | You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. | 107 |
| Lenny Kravitz | People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music. | 107 |
| Luke Bryan | It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you. | 107 |
| Mencius | If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. | 107 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. | 107 |
| Miles Davis | I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. | 107 |
| Missy Elliott | I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. | 107 |
| Neil Young | The thing about my music is, there really is no point. | 107 |
| Robert Plant | Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion. | 107 |
| Roger Ebert | Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. | 107 |
| Simon Cowell | In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. | 107 |
| Trent Reznor | It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' | 107 |
| Tyler, The Creator | I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music. | 107 |
| Ziggy Marley | Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people. | 107 |
| Bryan Adams | If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media. | 107 |
| David Guetta | I want to party in space because I make alien music. | 107 |
| Jason Mraz | Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. | 107 |
| Joan Jett | I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. | 107 |
| John James Audubon | Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. | 107 |
| William Lyon Phelps | Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. | 107 |
| Henry David Thoreau | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | 108 |
| Lil Wayne | I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across. | 108 |
| Richard Branson | The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. | 108 |
| Ice Cube | I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. | 108 |
| Kid Cudi | My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives. | 108 |
| Brian Eno | Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. | 108 |
| Christian Louboutin | I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping. | 108 |
| Conrad Hall | Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. | 108 |
| Dave Grohl | I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat. | 108 |
| David Lee Roth | Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. | 108 |
| Harry Styles | That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. | 108 |
| Heinrich Heine | Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. | 108 |
| Jimmy Fallon | I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.' | 108 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. | 108 |
| Lana Del Rey | My music is a luxury. | 108 |
| Lou Reed | I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. | 108 |
| Michael Caine | Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. | 108 |
| Nina Simone | I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. | 108 |
| Paracelsus | Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. | 108 |
| Patch Adams | I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response. | 108 |
| Penn Jillette | There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. | 108 |
| Pete Townshend | When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment. | 108 |
| Ray Charles | My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. | 108 |
| Rihanna | It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it. | 108 |
| Robert Browning | Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. | 108 |
| Shania Twain | Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. | 108 |
| Wassily Kandinsky | Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? | 108 |
| Wynton Marsalis | The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. | 108 |
| Young Jeezy | All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. | 108 |
| James Taylor | I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. | 108 |
| Jessie J | It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us. | 108 |
| Moby | Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. | 108 |
| Amy Lee | There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience. | 108 |
| Jamie Foxx | I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. | 108 |
| Jewel | Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist. | 108 |
| Jonathan Edwards | The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. | 108 |
| Plato | Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. | 109 |
| Jay-Z | Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me? | 109 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. | 109 |
| Adam Levine | I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. | 109 |
| Alice Cooper | I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then. | 109 |
| Amanda Seyfried | Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. | 109 |
| Bill O'Reilly | When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world. | 109 |
| Chance The Rapper | Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music. | 109 |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. | 109 |
| Gabby Douglas | Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. | 109 |
| Igor Stravinsky | The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. | 109 |
| Jerry Garcia | I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. | 109 |
| Karlie Kloss | I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong. | 109 |
| Lana Del Rey | I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. | 109 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. | 109 |
| Macklemore | Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine. | 109 |
| Neil Young | Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. | 109 |
| Serj Tankian | When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. | 109 |
| Tom Colicchio | It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do. | 109 |
| Tom Petty | Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. | 109 |
| James Taylor | Music is like a huge release of tension. | 109 |
| Sarah McLachlan | I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together. | 109 |
| John Green | When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. | 109 |
| Maria Callas | When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. | 109 |
| William Shakespeare | If music be the food of love, play on. | 110 |
| Frank Ocean | Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. | 110 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. | 110 |
| Richard M. Nixon | If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. | 110 |
| Taylor Swift | I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! | 110 |
| Marilyn Manson | Music is the strongest form of magic. | 110 |
| Camille Paglia | Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. | 110 |
| Cat Stevens | Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. | 110 |
| Chance The Rapper | I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case. | 110 |
| Claude Debussy | The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. | 110 |
| David Byrne | I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. | 110 |
| Duke Ellington | The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. | 110 |
| Ed Sheeran | Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that. | 110 |
| Frank Zappa | All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. | 110 |
| Glenn Beck | Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. | 110 |
| Jill Scott | Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write. | 110 |
| Layne Staley | Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. | 110 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. | 110 |
| Nina Simone | Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. | 110 |
| Paul McCartney | It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it. | 110 |
| Phillips Brooks | Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. | 110 |
| Pitbull | I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't. | 110 |
| Robert Fulghum | I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. | 110 |
| Robert Plant | Music is for every single person that walks the planet. | 110 |
| Stevie Nicks | It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. | 110 |
| Thom Yorke | I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in. | 110 |
| Tom DeLonge | Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that. | 110 |
| Willie Nelson | I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. | 110 |
| Annie Lennox | I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought. | 110 |
| Lao Tzu | Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. | 111 |
| Frank Ocean | Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. | 111 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Music is the shorthand of emotion. | 111 |
| Big Sean | People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.' | 111 |
| Billy Joel | Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. | 111 |
| Brian Eno | Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. | 111 |
| David Byrne | You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. | 111 |
| Fetty Wap | I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for. | 111 |
| Gene Simmons | Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't. | 111 |
| Igor Stravinsky | I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. | 111 |
| James Hetfield | If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive. | 111 |
| Jeff Foxworthy | Country music is about new love and it's about old love. | 111 |
| Mos Def | Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop. | 111 |
| Pink | I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier. | 111 |
| Samuel Butler | Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. | 111 |
| Michael Kors | Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music. | 111 |
| Jimi Hendrix | When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. | 112 |
| Keith Richards | The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. | 112 |
| J. Cole | I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that. | 112 |
| B. B. King | I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. | 112 |
| Billie Holiday | If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. | 112 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation. | 112 |
| Dr. Dre | I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life. | 112 |
| E. W. Howe | When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. | 112 |
| Eddie Van Halen | I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for. | 112 |
| Heinrich Heine | The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. | 112 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. | 112 |
| Maynard James Keenan | Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. | 112 |
| Sean Combs | I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. | 112 |
| Scott Weiland | Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it. | 112 |
| Bruce Springsteen | All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful. | 113 |
| Eminem | If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. | 113 |
| Jimi Hendrix | Music is my religion. | 113 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. | 113 |
| Brian Eno | I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.' | 113 |
| Dr. Dre | I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. | 113 |
| Enrique Iglesias | I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously. | 113 |
| Eric Clapton | I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. | 113 |
| Igor Stravinsky | The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. | 113 |
| Jack White | I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. | 113 |
| Katy Perry | I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music. | 113 |
| Magic Johnson | I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times. | 113 |
| Michio Kaku | I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. | 113 |
| Nikki Giovanni | Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. | 113 |
| Nikki Sixx | There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. | 113 |
| Steve Prefontaine | Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. | 113 |
| Stevie Wonder | I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens. | 113 |
| Thom Yorke | I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. | 113 |
| Tom Waits | I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. | 113 |
| Vin Scully | The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating. | 113 |
| Zhuangzi | Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. | 113 |
| Drake | I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting. | 114 |
| Adele | I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. | 114 |
| Johnny Cash | Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. | 114 |
| Christina Aguilera | I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. | 114 |
| Eddie Vedder | When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. | 114 |
| Ellie Goulding | I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting. | 114 |
| Jack White | There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up. | 114 |
| Lauryn Hill | I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first. | 114 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. | 114 |
| Maynard James Keenan | I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. | 114 |
| Michio Kaku | In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. | 114 |
| Thom Yorke | I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. | 114 |
| Tori Amos | My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. | 114 |
| David Bowie | The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. | 115 |
| Nas | I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life. | 115 |
| Alan Rickman | Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. | 115 |
| B. B. King | I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. | 115 |
| Britney Spears | I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. | 115 |
| Eddie Vedder | Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. | 115 |
| George Harrison | I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music. | 115 |
| Lauryn Hill | I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. | 115 |
| Mary J. Blige | I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me. | 115 |
| Nat King Cole | The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it. | 115 |
| Truman Capote | Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. | 115 |
| Ice Cube | I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced. | 116 |
| Keith Richards | You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones! | 116 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. | 116 |
| Dave Grohl | Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. | 116 |
| Henry Miller | Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. | 116 |
| Joni Mitchell | I see music as fluid architecture. | 116 |
| LL Cool J | I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. | 116 |
| Elvis Presley | Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' | 117 |
| Lil Wayne | Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. | 117 |
| Prince | The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. | 117 |
| Taylor Swift | I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. | 117 |
| Ice Cube | I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. | 117 |
| Carlos Santana | I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. | 117 |
| Eddie Vedder | I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. | 117 |
| Thomas Carlyle | Music is well said to be the speech of angels. | 117 |
| Sarah McLachlan | I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. | 117 |
| David Bowie | Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. | 118 |
| Tupac Shakur | Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. | 118 |
| Carlos Santana | I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. | 118 |
| Christina Aguilera | You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. | 118 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. | 119 |
| Kendrick Lamar | People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live. | 119 |
| Justin Bieber | I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me. | 119 |
| Orson Welles | I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. | 119 |
| Snoop Dogg | I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me. | 119 |
| Kanye West | Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. | 120 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | I call architecture frozen music. | 120 |
| Bono | The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. | 120 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. | 120 |
| Charles Baudelaire | The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. | 120 |
| Frank Zappa | Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. | 120 |
| John Mayer | Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. | 120 |
| Drake | When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto. | 121 |
| Eminem | Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. | 121 |
| Jim Morrison | Music inflames temperament. | 121 |
| Joseph Campbell | Love is a friendship set to music. | 121 |
| Karl Pilkington | I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. | 121 |
| Paulo Coelho | Music for me, it demands full concentration. | 121 |
| Tupac Shakur | I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. | 121 |
| Ice Cube | But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time. | 121 |
| Adele | I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on. | 121 |
| Jay-Z | That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that. | 121 |
| Gustav Mahler | The real art of conducting consists in transitions. | 121 |
| Yoko Ono | I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it. | 121 |
| Jimi Hendrix | Music is a safe kind of high. | 122 |
| Prince | I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music. | 122 |
| Frank Zappa | Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. | 122 |
| Henry Rollins | Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. | 123 |
| Prince | I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. | 123 |
| Lady Gaga | Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. | 123 |
| Dave Grohl | When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. | 123 |
| Miranda Lambert | Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know? | 123 |
| Jimi Hendrix | I try to use my music to move these people to act. | 124 |
| Prince | When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. | 124 |
| W. H. Auden | Music is the best means we have of digesting time. | 124 |
| John Keats | There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. | 124 |
| Marilyn Manson | Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me. | 124 |
| David Bowie | I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. | 125 |
| Pope John Paul II | I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. | 125 |
| Ice Cube | Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. | 125 |
| Bob Marley | My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. | 126 |
| David Bowie | I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. | 126 |
| Henry Rollins | As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. | 126 |
| Anne Lamott | If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. | 126 |
| Demi Lovato | I want my music to do the explaining. | 126 |
| Samuel Butler | Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. | 126 |
| Jimi Hendrix | Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. | 201 |
| John Lennon | Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. | 201 |
| John Ruskin | Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. | 201 |
| Demi Lovato | I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show. | 201 |
| Eminem | I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. | 203 |
| Jimi Hendrix | My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. | 203 |
| Martin Luther | Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. | 203 |
| William Wordsworth | I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. | 203 |
| Demi Lovato | Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins. | 203 |
| Jean Cocteau | All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. | 203 |
| David Bowie | On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. | 204 |
| Prince | There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. | 204 |
| John Lennon | If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. | 206 |
| Martin Luther | Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. | 206 |
| Henry Rollins | Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. | 207 |
| Gustav Mahler | In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. | 207 |
| Steve Jobs | It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. | 208 |
| Bob Dylan | This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. | 209 |
| Bob Marley | My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. | 210 |
| Kanye West | Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. | 211 |
| Henry Rollins | Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. | 211 |
| Martin Luther | My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. | 211 |
| Bob Dylan | Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. | 212 |
| David Bowie | I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. | 214 |
| Elvis Presley | I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. | 214 |
| Taylor Swift | I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. | 216 |
| Kanye West | If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. | 217 |
| Maya Angelou | Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. | 217 |
| Ronald Reagan | Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. | 219 |
| Carl Jung | A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. | 220 |
| Taylor Swift | People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. | 220 |
| Bob Dylan | Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. | 221 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Please write music like Wagner, only louder. | 221 |
| David Bowie | Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. | 222 |
| David Bowie | I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. | 223 |
| W. H. Auden | No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. | 223 |
| Thomas Carlyle | If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. | 225 |
| Groucho Marx | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. | 302 |
| Henry David Thoreau | When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. | 303 |
| Bob Dylan | People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. | 303 |
| Thomas Fuller | Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. | 303 |
| William Shakespeare | The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. | 309 |
| Maya Angelou | Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. | 315 |
| Confucius | How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion. | 317 |
| Eminem | I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate. | 318 |
| Khalil Gibran | When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? | 407 |
| Maya Angelou | One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. | 407 |
| Albert Einstein | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. | 506 |
| Oscar Wilde | If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. | 617 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | In music the passions enjoy themselves. | 704 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Hell is full of musical amateurs. | 719 |
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