201. I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. — Lady Gaga
203. I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak
204. Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound
205. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it. — Glenn Beck
206. Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. — Frank Zappa
207. I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. — Lady Gaga
208. For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. — Billy Joel
209. Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you’ve got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else. — Jarvis Cocker
210. I’ll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I’ll never stop my music. — George Harrison
214. Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish. — Brian Eno
218. My music isn’t anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock’n’roll, and it has an urgency to it. — Neil Young
220. When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. — Jerry Saltz
222. The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. — Mark Zuckerberg

224. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou
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225. 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. — Anne Lamott
226. I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. — David Bowie
227. Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! — Taylor Swift
228. The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That’s where the music lives. That’s where my music comes from. — Clarence Clemons
229. I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It’s a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins
230. You’re now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that’s why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did. — Katherine Jenkins
231. 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. — Keith Richards
233. It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don’t see that same intimacy happening very much today. — Layne Staley
234. Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. — Glenn Hughes
235. I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. — Jam Master Jay
236. I find that it isn’t wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I’ve met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they’re very nice. At the same time, I’ve met people whose music I’ve loved, and they’re not the person you’ve invested all this emotion in. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
238. There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. — Joni Mitchell
239. I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day. — R. Kelly
240. Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing. — Julie Andrews
242. 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. — Keith Richards
243. Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you’ve ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen
244. Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. — Andres Segovia
247. Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star. — Adam Lambert
249. 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. — Ludwig van Beethoven
251. The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno
253. There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. — Brian Eno
254. 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. — Cat Stevens
255. It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. — Eric Clapton

256. It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. — David Byrne
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257. So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us. — Joan Jett
259. A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! — Oliver Wendell Holmes
260. At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray
263. 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? — Ozzy Osbourne
264. My message to anyone who’s afraid that they can’t write music when they’re happy is ‘Just trust the passion.’ The passion can write a lot of things. — Alanis Morissette
265. I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me. — Snoop Dogg
266. 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. — Ingmar Bergman
268. We talk a lot on ‘Biggest Loser’ about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I’m always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music. — Alison Sweeney
269. 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. — Neko Case
271. Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable. — Brian Eno
272. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her. — Ellie Goulding
273. 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. — Maynard James Keenan
274. The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. — Carlos Santana
276. 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. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
277. In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. — Joni Mitchell
278. 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. — Bob Dylan
280. 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.’ — Pete Townshend
281. 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 ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music? — Neil Young
282. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
283. Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun
284. 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. — Johnny Cash
285. 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. — Henny Youngman
286. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans’ musicians. It is called the Musicians’ Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. — Harry Connick, Jr.

288. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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289. I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. — Adam Lambert
290. Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
291. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. — Isaac Stern
292. Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. — Thomas Carlyle
293. Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it. — Brian Eno
294. 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. — Thom Yorke
295. The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno
296. Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying. — Neil Young
297. Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. — Tori Amos
298. I’m clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I’ll be writing books. I’m still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. — Alanis Morissette
299. If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music. — Thomas Carlyle
300. 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. — Ani DiFranco
301. I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. — Pete Townshend
302. You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards
303. 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. — Ellie Goulding
304. That’s what I love from metal, and that’s what I love from hip-hop. That’s what I love from any music that’s hard, that’s got an edge to it-The attitude in it. — Kid Rock
306. A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’ — Barack Obama
307. Mumford & Sons’ music appeals to a lot of America. I’m really proud of them. — Ellie Goulding
308. 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. — Katy Perry
312. Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? — Camille Paglia
313. I can’t satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. — Marilyn Manson
315. When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably ’cause I missed something about Texas. — Norah Jones
316. I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. — Peter Ustinov
317. 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. — William Wordsworth
319. Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep. — Ellie Goulding

320. A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden
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322. What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O’Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote ‘Jagged Little Pill.’ — Alanis Morissette
323. 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. — Daniel Radcliffe
324. I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. It’s an obsessive character trait that’s getting worse. I don’t switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something’s going wrong. — Robert Plant
325. Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. — Paul McCartney
326. I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you’re a diva. They can’t believe after eight years, and eight albums, you’re still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody. — Katherine Jenkins
327. I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans. — Joan Jett
329. You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. — Billy Corgan
330. We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. — Brian Eno
331. You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. — Bob Dylan
332. Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. — Diogenes
333. 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. — Pete Townshend
335. It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. — Harry Connick, Jr.
336. Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art. — Charlie Parker
337. 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. — Tupac Shakur
341. It’s been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I’ve experienced. — Adam Lambert
342. I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. — Danny Boyle
343. Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I’m making music because we write it together and produce it together. I’ve got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. — Ellie Goulding
346. My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. — Paul McCartney
347. Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music. — Jimi Hendrix
348. 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. — Bob Marley
349. I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big. — Lady Gaga

352. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. — Ellen DeGeneres
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354. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. — Roy Ayers
355. The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That’s what critics can’t put their finger on. — Billy Corgan
357. 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. — Zhuangzi
359. Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. — Grace Slick
360. I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music. — Steve Martin
362. I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. — Iggy Pop
364. I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don’t think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn’t put it out in the world! — Katherine Jenkins
368. Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward. — Fiona Apple
369. I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on. — David Guetta
370. What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. — Ray Charles
371. Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion. — Tony Snow
373. Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it. — Alanis Morissette
374. 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. — Ray Charles
375. 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. — Amanda Seyfried
376. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. — Ludwig van Beethoven
379. We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us. — Jerry Garcia
380. In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music. — Roy H. Williams
381. I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. — Michael Tippett
383. 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. — Billie Joe Armstrong

384. I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. — Christina Aguilera
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385. I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen? — Peter Tosh
386. Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. — Gary Wright
387. You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. — David Byrne
388. When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. — E. W. Howe
389. 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. — Benjamin Britten
391. Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
392. Most recently we’ve been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren’t too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott’s, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. — Chuck Mangione
394. I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. — Willie Nelson
395. These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. — Felix Mendelssohn
396. 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. — Ellie Goulding
400. 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. — Henry Miller