401. 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. — Jerry Garcia
402. 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. — Taylor Swift
403. 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. — Salma Hayek
404. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. — Abraham Maslow
405. 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. — Tom Wopat
406. 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. — Eric Clapton
407. I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there’s innocence contained in you but there’s also innocence in the process of being lost. — Bruce Springsteen
408. Music is the universal language of mankind. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
409. Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing. — Rod Stewart
410. I try to use my music to move these people to act. — Jimi Hendrix
411. Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. — Emile M. Cioran
412. I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. — Charles Baudelaire
413. Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
414. I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there’s a lot of bluegrass there. — Steve Martin
415. It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music. — Tom Petty
416. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. — Norah Jones
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417. 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. — Charles Baudelaire
418. I doubt I’ll be singing forever, because at some point people aren’t going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I’ll still get the opportunity to write songs. — Adele
419. I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it! — Brian Eno
420. I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else. — Ellie Goulding
421. I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect. — Julie Andrews
422. 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. — Eminem
423. People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. — Serj Tankian
424. What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love. — Lady Gaga
425. But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. — Jonathan Kozol
426. I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera. — Stephen Hawking
427. I don’t write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. — Martin Gore
428. Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp
429. Music inflames temperament. — Jim Morrison
430. And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it’s catchy, and you’ve got a little bit of help, I think that’s all you need. But there hasn’t been that in music. — Joan Jett
431. It’s really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like ‘Hey, how do you feel about making music together?’ because maybe I’m afraid of rejection or I don’t want to put anybody out. It’s the Southerner in me, like, ‘I don’t mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?’ — Beth Ditto
432. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. — Elton John
433. What I was going for in the first two albums I didn’t necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a ‘quickie’ sort of ‘Let’s just get it over with!’ But the kind of music I make, there’s a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it. — Norah Jones
434. 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? — Jay-Z
435. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That’s the only reason. It doesn’t sell your music for you. — Shania Twain
436. Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. — Henri Frederic Amiel
437. All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. — Frank Zappa
438. I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It’s a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That’s a real danger. — Neil Young
439. After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. — Maynard James Keenan
440. I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. — Thom Yorke
441. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler
442. To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now. — Billy Corgan
443. Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. — Marcel Marceau
444. 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. — Richard Branson
445. I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running. — Lady Gaga
446. Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It’s not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It’s about the fact that I really do enjoy it. — Ville Valo
447. Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it’s always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don’t ever come within a mile of profit – clearly these people are not playing music to make money. — Ian MacKaye
448. I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. — Pope John Paul II
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449. Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. — Hans Hofmann
450. Nature’s music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions. — Mary Webb
451. All music is beautiful. — Billy Strayhorn
452. I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly. — Lady Gaga
453. 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. — John Lennon
454. 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. — Bill Monroe
455. 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. — Cat Stevens
456. I mean, music totally comes from your soul. — Martin Scorsese
457. So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that’s exactly how I approached it – only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. — Smokey Robinson
458. I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It’s simply a market chart. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
459. Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
460. I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry. — Amy Winehouse
461. I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. — Alanis Morissette
462. Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all. — Lady Gaga
463. It’s not just the ‘Grammys’ that I’ve pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success. — Alanis Morissette
464. I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco
465. People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask. — David Byrne
466. I feel this music has nurtured me as I’ve been immersing myself in it. I’ve felt supported by it. — Sting
467. It’s true, there’s a lot of melancholy in my music. I don’t know why, I’m not a melancholy person. I’ve always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. — Norah Jones
468. 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. — Michelle Branch
469. I’m just lucky because my kids are grown-up – I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don’t need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music. — Robert Plant
470. 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.’ — Elvis Presley
471. I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere… Being a human being is what truly counts. That’s where you’ll find me. — Annie Lennox
472. I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary. — Bono
473. I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own. — Norah Jones
474. I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. — Danny Boyle
475. The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. — Stendhal
476. I always think I’m the Tom Cruise of music – a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. — Jon Bon Jovi
477. I’ve spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. — Renee Fleming
478. People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that’s gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan
479. At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music. — Layne Staley
480. Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don’t care how many units I sell. — Alanis Morissette
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481. The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around. — Jimi Hendrix
482. I’m not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it’s just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There’s a lot of people who are committed to – soulfully. — Jerry Garcia
483. Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. — Xun Zi
484. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
485. Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix
486. I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs. — Freddie Mercury
487. I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. — Ice Cube
488. You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works. — Van Morrison
489. I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. — Sting
490. Music for me, it demands full concentration. — Paulo Coelho
491. Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. — Giorgio Moroder
492. Music is for every single person that walks the planet. — Robert Plant
493. 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. — Eddie Vedder
494. People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still. — Milan Kundera
495. 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. — Phillips Brooks
496. Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
497. People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has. — Taylor Swift
498. Music is hugely important to me. — Rashida Jones
499. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. — Bruce Springsteen
500. My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy. — Jennifer Garner
501. 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. — Denis Diderot
502. When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. — Billy Joel
503. Pop music has progressed. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
504. Music is the career I’m lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley
505. 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. — Adele
506. Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz
507. Music is the emotional life of most people. — Leonard Cohen
508. My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ’em over and over. — Clint Eastwood
509. 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. — Bob Dylan
510. If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor
511. For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music. — Taylor Swift
512. In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? — Jamie Foxx
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513. I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women. — Billy Joel
514. I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element. — Lady Gaga
515. Music is essentially useless, as is life. — George Santayana
516. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. — Martin Luther
517. I don’t stop. It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do ‘Evita.’ I want to do ‘Sweeney Todd’ with Chris Colfer. We want to do ‘Wicked.’ I’ll be Elphaba and he wants to play ‘Guy-linda.’ I want to do movies, make music. ‘Glee’ is only the beginning. — Lea Michele
518. The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. — Jonathan Davis
519. 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. — Steve Prefontaine
520. I didn’t want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock
521. I’m always going to do that – record and make music. — Norah Jones
522. 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. — Robert Plant
523. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. — George Santayana
524. Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has. — Mary J. Blige
525. I’ve never intended to be controversial, but it’s very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
526. But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn’t be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music’s got these bars and measures you know. — Sun Ra
527. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. — Thomas Fuller
528. I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
529. I love 70’s music. — Laura Linney
530. Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. — Maynard James Keenan
531. I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate. — Eminem
532. There’s a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There’s such a continuity between everything that I don’t really care what form it shows up in. — Alanis Morissette
533. I dabbled in things like Howlin’ Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I’d been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. — Jack White
534. People always try to find my agenda, but I don’t really have one. It’s safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I’m doing important music, too. I’ve just always done what I wanted to do. — Ellie Goulding
535. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote
536. Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It’s kind of like the indie music scene. — Diablo Cody
537. I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. — Sebastian Bach
538. Music is a part of my life all the time – on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court. — Maria Sharapova
539. I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting. — Yoko Ono
540. Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. — Edgar Winter
541. I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to. — Elvis Presley
542. 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. — George Byron
543. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. — Jean Paul
544. When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. — Jimi Hendrix
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545. 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. — Katherine Jenkins
546. Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time. — Joan Jett
547. Rock n’ Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That’s what rock n’ roll should do – take you to a better place. — Meat Loaf
548. We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. — Maynard James Keenan
549. I didn’t think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody – I didn’t think it described me very well and I didn’t think it had anything to do with my music. — Norah Jones
550. You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people’s bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. — Shirley Manson
551. I find Indian music very funky. I mean it’s very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it’s the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. — John McLaughlin
552. All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
553. Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera
554. The thing about my music is, there really is no point. — Neil Young
555. My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. — Wole Soyinka
556. What I’m trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It’s my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it’s very much alive. — Pete Townshend
557. Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band. — Rashida Jones
558. For me, music and life are all about style. — Miles Davis
559. Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there’s something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that’s always been difficult for me. I’m a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. — Norah Jones
560. 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. — David Bowie
561. Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. — Kenny Chesney
562. Music is what our feelings sound like. — Vera Farmiga
563. Well, I’ll tell you, I don’t know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like. — Joan Jett
564. The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. — Duke Ellington
565. Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law. — David Byrne
566. There’s a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. — Willie Nelson
567. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. — Gustave Flaubert
568. If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. — Billy Joel
569. 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. — Jay-Z
570. Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. — Lawrence Welk
571. For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’. — Billie Joe Armstrong
572. 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. — Lil Wayne
573. 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. — Billy Joel
574. I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. — Christina Milian
575. We tend to mistake music for the physical object. — David Byrne
576. When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. — Morgan Freeman
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577. 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. — Wolfman Jack
578. I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn’t have had more obstacles. — Marilyn Manson
579. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture. — Brian Eno
580. Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. — Brian Eno
581. Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’ — Ani DiFranco
582. I’ve loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos. — Ashley Tisdale
583. Music is the soul of language. — Max Heindel
584. Music is part of God’s universe. — Cat Stevens
585. 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. — Quentin Tarantino
586. 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. — Peter Tork
587. I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy. — Fred Durst
588. My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason. — Will Smith
589. That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. — Corita Kent
590. I see music as fluid architecture. — Joni Mitchell
591. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. — Bruce Springsteen
592. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Berthold Auerbach
593. We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile. — Barry White
594. My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. — Paul Simon
595. If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It’s one way to answer the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I feel music answers it better. — Paula Cole
596. Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others. — Eddie Izzard
597. You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. — Robert Plant
598. I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith
599. We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. — Billy Joel
600. The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. — Keith Richards