Music Quotes

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Plato

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Osho

Dream on my Dear, and renounce temporal obligations.

Dead Can Dance

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Bob Dylan

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Bryan Ferry

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Brian Eno

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

Kid Rock

Music is forever music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Paul Simon

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

Music is your guide.

Billy Corgan

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

Joni Mitchell

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Terry Pratchett

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

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

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

George Bernard Shaw

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Norah Jones

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