Music Quotes

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Brett Favre

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

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

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

George Lucas

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

I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.

George Bernard Shaw

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

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Norah Jones

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Avril Lavigne

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Samuel Goldwyn

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Amy Winehouse

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

Ellie Goulding

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

C.S. Lewis

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.

Charles Kingsley

When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love.

Franz Schubert

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Stephen King