Music Quotes

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

Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that's how people grow up.

Morrissey

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Avery Brundage

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

Arundhati Roy

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

Taylor Swift

There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.

Lord Byron

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Terry Eagleton

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

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds

Mark Twain

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

Jonathan Davis

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Mark Twain

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Ben Harper

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth.

Katie Melua

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

George Gershwin

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

Emm Gryner