801. I know that I can sing. That’s the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old. — Kesha
802. When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. — Billy Joel
803. If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. — Aulis Sallinen
804. Oh, stuff the critics. I don’t care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn’t brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great. — Katherine Jenkins
805. I want my music to do the explaining. — Demi Lovato
806. When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that’s what sells records and then you realize, ‘All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,’ it feels good to have success come from what’s actually inside of you. — Jessica Simpson
807. Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. — George Jones
808. You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something – it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. — Nick Rhodes
809. We don’t make music – it makes us. — David Byrne
810. I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. — Cat Stevens
811. 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. — Lauryn Hill
812. I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs. — Brian Eno
813. 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. — Vince Neil
814. 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. — Felix Mendelssohn
815. I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear. — Diane Kruger
816. Music is about communication… it isn’t just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it’s something far, far deeper than that. — Evelyn Glennie
817. Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I’m far more open now. — Shaun White
818. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. — Brian Eno
819. I’ve seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I’m proud I was there when it happened. — Loretta Lynn
820. Maybe I’m genetically more inclined to music – but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas! — Norah Jones
821. Pop music will never be low brow. — Lady Gaga
822. And whether you’re drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. — Bruce Springsteen
823. For me the visual is just as important as the music. — Christina Aguilera
824. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. — Axel Munthe
825. It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it. — Paul McCartney
826. No matter how many times people say it – ‘Oh, I’m just writing this for myself’ ‘Oh, I’m just doing this for myself’ – nobody’s doing it for themselves! You’re doing it for an audience. So whether I’m performing or writing a book or playing music, it’s definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely. — Steve Martin
827. Music should be your escape. — Missy Elliot
828. Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
829. Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. — Plutarch
830. What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. — Karl Lagerfeld
831. When you actually like each other, it translates to the music. — Billy Corgan
832. 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. — Christina Aguilera
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833. I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. — Travis Barker
834. Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you’re testing those relationships. — Jonathan Cain
835. Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home. — Cameron Crowe
836. The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part. — David Byrne
837. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley
838. 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. — William Lyon Phelps
839. 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. — Shania Twain
840. I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music. — James Taylor
841. 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. — Scott Stapp
842. Music is the best way for me to say I love you. — Mireille Mathieu
843. I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. — Jay London
844. From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. — John Philip Sousa
845. But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. — E. O. Wilson
846. To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence. — Quentin Tarantino
847. 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. — Judith Viorst
848. If I hadn’t of had music in my life, it’s quite possible I’d be dead and I’d much rather be alive. — James Hetfield
849. Well-written words are music. — William Shatner
850. I write music every day. — Lady Gaga
851. The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. — Neil Young
852. Hell is full of musical amateurs. — George Bernard Shaw
853. 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. — Jack Black
854. 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! — Taylor Swift
855. Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. — Jeff Foxworthy
856. Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. — Maynard James Keenan
857. 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. — Bill Cosby
858. I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. — Beth Ditto
859. 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. — Billy Joel
860. The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. — Havelock Ellis
861. 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. — David Bowie
862. I think what I’m going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock ‘n’ roll and do what I like to do in music. — Joan Jett
863. Music is really something that makes people whole. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
864. I don’t want to make niche-oriented music. — Lady Gaga
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865. Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens
866. You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’ — Danny Boyle
867. The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. — George Lucas
868. I do love country music. — Kesha
869. 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. — Igor Stravinsky
870. Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. — Billy Sheehan
871. There’s an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim – the album with ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’ That’s the most seductive music ever. — Harry Connick, Jr.
872. Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend! — Lauryn Hill
873. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. — Joni Mitchell
874. Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. — Rebecca West
875. I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno
876. I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it. — Steve Martin
877. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. — Kin Hubbard
878. 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. — Truman Capote
879. Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. — Alvin Ailey
880. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. — Frank Zappa
881. 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? — Khalil Gibran
882. Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. — Frank Zappa
883. I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. — Robert Frost
884. I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. — Sting
885. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art. — Charlie Parker
886. I just do what I do. I like to make music. — Neil Young
887. 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. — Robert Fulghum
888. Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. — Shaun White
889. Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing. — Eminem
890. Australia is so cool that it’s hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago. — Mary-Kate Olsen
891. I think it’s important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet. — Norah Jones
892. Even from a listening end now, I’m still completely a fan of music. — James Iha
893. Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. — Napoleon Bonaparte
894. I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. — Bruce Springsteen
895. The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. — Billy Corgan
896. Music can change the world because it can change people. — Bono
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897. That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. — Lesley Garrett
898. I’ve been a fan of electronic music since the beginning. — Jonathan Davis
899. 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. — Reba McEntire
900. I’ve had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don’t repeat myself. — Tori Amos
901. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. — Ludwig van Beethoven
902. I wasn’t very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones
903. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo
904. Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. — Layne Staley
905. I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there. — Adam Lambert
906. You know I used to listen to music a lot more. — Brett Favre
907. I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha
908. I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. — Brian Eno
909. I don’t want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we’d neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music. — Billie Joe Armstrong
910. I don’t actually have a lot of discipline. I’ve worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it. — Norah Jones
911. 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. — Igor Stravinsky
912. 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. — Buddy Guy
913. I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians. — Harry Connick, Jr.
914. In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores. — Lorin Maazel
915. 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. — Jerry Garcia
916. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. — Martin Luther
917. I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. — Brian Eno
918. A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they’re there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. — Harry Connick, Jr.
919. 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. — Diane Kruger
920. Metal is still the biggest music now in America. — Sebastian Bach
921. 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. — Stanley Kubrick
922. Folk music is a bunch of fat people. — Bob Dylan
923. I’ve only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
924. If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. — Oscar Wilde
925. I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. — James Taylor
926. 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. — Mick Jagger
927. The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I’m not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. — Pete Townshend
928. My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. — Bob Marley
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929. But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. — Gabriel Marcel
930. What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. — Gertrude Stein
931. 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. — Adele
932. It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple. — Jonathan Davis
933. We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream. — Arthur O’Shaughnessy
934. I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. — Brett Favre
935. I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do. — Harry Connick, Jr.
936. What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. — David Ogden Stiers
937. You shouldn’t be in the music business if you’re posing. — Rod Stewart
938. If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it. — David Byrne
939. People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. — Brian Eno
940. I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy
941. It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
942. I have a very lively and colourful show. It’s two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. — Rod Stewart
943. If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it’s because they have something, something special. — Roberto Cavalli
944. I haven’t heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I’m listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music. — Aung San Suu Kyi
945. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. — Albert Camus
946. I only want to make music because I have a passion for it. — Annie Lennox
947. I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song. — Amy Winehouse
948. I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone
949. My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles
950. 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. — David Bowie
951. I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game. — Adam Lambert
952. I’m very inspired by past music. — Adam Lambert
953. Please write music like Wagner, only louder. — Samuel Goldwyn
954. A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting. — Charlie Trotter
955. In middle school, I really didn’t have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama. — Adam Lambert
956. The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will. — Jennifer Lopez
957. Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major – capturing, reflecting and improvising. — Barbara Januszkiewicz
958. Musicians don’t retire they stop when there’s no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
959. 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. — Ronnie James Dio
960. I’ve studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I’ve found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. — Cat Stevens
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961. But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. — Bryan Ferry
962. Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko
963. I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. — Dick Dale
964. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein
965. 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. — William Wordsworth
966. I genuinely don’t feel that anything that’s been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that’s the most important thing as far as I’m concerned. — Norah Jones
967. Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. — Trey Anastasio
968. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. — Sting
969. Country music is three chords and the truth. — Harlan Howard
970. I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. — Thom Yorke
971. Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar
972. 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. — Ville Valo
973. Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours. — Phil Collins
974. I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don’t see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven’t recorded it. — Joni Mitchell
975. I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers. — Kid Rock
976. I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing ‘chick’ music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It’s part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. — Ani DiFranco
977. High school music teachers… nobody makes a living off it. — David Ogden Stiers
978. 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. — Dennis Wilson
979. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. — Frank Zappa
980. A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn’t always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I’m interested in now, particularly at my age. — Annie Lennox
981. Music is what I love to do it’s in my veins. — Demi Lovato
982. I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. — Alan Greenspan
983. Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like. — Shania Twain
984. Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong
985. I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn’t really great – people didn’t really want to be part of the choir, they didn’t want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn’t the cool thing to do. — Lea Michele
986. If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music. — Clint Eastwood
987. 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. — Lil Wayne
988. Music fills the infinite between two souls. — Rabindranath Tagore
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