602. My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. — Jessica Sanchez
603. It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. — Honore de Balzac
604. 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. — Lenny Kravitz
606. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
607. If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock’n’roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel. — Buddy Holly
608. The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it’s like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it’ll be a hip-hop song. That’s the only music you can do that with. — Talib Kweli
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609. It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. — Ursula K. Le Guin
610. There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior. — David Byrne
612. I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. — Steve Hackett
615. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. — William Shakespeare
616. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler
619. All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! — Yoko Ono
620. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
623. Music is forever music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. — Paul Simon
627. 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. — Jim Davis
628. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. — Bryan Ferry
629. Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. — Charles de Lint
630. I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales – when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there’s something different about it. And I miss the simple life. — Ellie Goulding
631. The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. — Fiona Apple
632. 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. — Demi Lovato
633. My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S… what singer doesn’t have that dream? — Katherine Jenkins
636. Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting. — Michael Stipe
637. People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts. — Paul Hindemith
638. Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. — A. J. McLean
639. First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. — Carlos Santana
640. Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne
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641. From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn’t need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation. — Eric Clapton
642. Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. — Billy Corgan
643. Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. — Yoko Ono
644. 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. — Billie Joe Armstrong
647. 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. — Scott Weiland
648. 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. — Eric Clapton
650. For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. — Dennis Prager
651. Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. — George Eliot
652. We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only. — Henry Miller
653. Men make angry music and it’s called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they’re angry and militant. — Ani DiFranco
654. There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras
655. In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan
656. We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it. — Leonard Cohen
658. For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. — Paula Cole
659. Hip-hop’s always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it’s always had a lot of positivity. — LL Cool J
660. I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. — Eminem
661. 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. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
662. Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. — Eric Clapton
663. A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. — Leopold Stokowski
664. 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. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
665. 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. — Camille Paglia
666. We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. — Francis Ford Coppola
668. 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. — Lady Gaga
669. My music must reflect whatever’s going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I’m becoming. — Shania Twain
670. Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. — Toru Takemitsu
671. Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. — Jimi Hendrix
672. I feel like every project I’ve ever done has had music involved in it somehow. — Ashley Tisdale
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677. I didn’t know much about him, and I wasn’t a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn’t know a lot about him. — Joaquin Phoenix
678. 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. — Neil Young
679. I didn’t really see the British punk movement, if that’s what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
680. I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. — Alanis Morissette
681. I’m writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I’ve already written. — Kesha
683. 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. When you hear a song and you’re acting it’s incredible. But when you’re singing a song and you’re acting it’s even more incredible. — Amanda Seyfried
684. 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. — Ace Frehley
685. The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. — Henry Rollins
686. 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’. — Bob Newhart
687. Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
688. I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever! — LeBron James
689. I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I’m playing music that I believe in. — Billy Corgan
690. If you like my music, great, and if you don’t, whatever. I’m going to keep making it either way. — Katy Perry
691. 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. — Beth Ditto
692. 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? — Billy Joel
694. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. — Herb Alpert
696. I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album. — Lil Wayne
697. I think people need to have fun with whatever they’re doing – makeup, their clothes, music, live shows – anything you don’t need to take too seriously, don’t take too seriously. — Kesha
698. The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. — Taylor Swift
699. When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. — Maria Callas
700. 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. — Gerard Way
701. 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. — Carlos Santana
702. 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. — Etta James
703. As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. — Julie Andrews
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705. What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t. — Charley Pride
706. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
707. Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. — Brian Eno
708. My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. — Carlos Santana
710. In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. — Brian Eno
713. For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. — Brian Eno
714. There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry. — Jimmy Buffett
715. Great classic music that I’ve been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. — Scott Weiland
716. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
718. Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I’ve never let people’s opinions affect the way I write. — Katy Perry
719. Music’s been around a long time, and there’s going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it’s a big record, that’s the frosting on the cake, but music’s the main meal. — Ray Charles
720. 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. — Ellie Goulding
721. I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. — Russell Simmons
722. Rap music’s been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn’t. — Alexander McQueen
723. Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. — Maynard James Keenan
724. I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping. — Nina Simone
726. 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. — Dave Grohl
727. It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. — John Mayer
730. 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. — Tupac Shakur
732. Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas
734. Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. — Ray Charles
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738. 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. — Buddy Rich
739. 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. — Albert Einstein
740. 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. — Peabo Bryson
743. I am severely distracted these days. It’s hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess. — April Winchell
744. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. — David Byrne
745. I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. — Bruce Springsteen
747. Ain’t nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals. — Talib Kweli
748. Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. — Walter Savage Landor
749. Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn’t have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me – a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them? — Beth Ditto
750. Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too. — Brian Eno
752. 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. — Paracelsus
754. I’m quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I’ve got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don’t really have to do much else. — Ellie Goulding
761. Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music. — Beth Ditto
762. What is music anyway? It’s a form of communication, and that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people. — Kenny G
764. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. — Henri Frederic Amiel
765. I’m constantly thinking about what I’ll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don’t know, because it’s not in your hands, you don’t make the decision. — Beth Ditto
766. Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. — Herbert Spencer
768. I don’t need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. — David Duchovny
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772. 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. — Bobby Vinton
773. 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. — Justin Bieber
775. I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook. — Joan Jett
776. 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! — John Hughes
777. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley
778. Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. — Kristin Hersh
781. Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. — Rainn Wilson
782. I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star. — Bryan Adams
783. I’m a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There’s others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there’s another type that’s not a visual thinker at all, and they’re the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. — Temple Grandin
786. I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. — Billy Corgan
787. 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. — Henry David Thoreau
788. 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. — Henry David Thoreau
789. I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. — Danny Boyle
790. The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
793. 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. — Eminem
797. We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters. — Eddie Van Halen
798. 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. — Andres Segovia
799. It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne
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