Music Quotes

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

Nuno Bettencourt

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Willie Nelson

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

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

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Mark Twain

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

David Ogden Stiers

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

David Guetta

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Dizzy Gillespie

a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

Sarah Dessen

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Ross David Burke

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Camille Paglia

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Martin Scorsese

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Andres Segovia

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Eminem

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

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

También en su mundo distante, más distante que la propia luna, la música era capaz de penetrar y hacer milagros.

Paulo Coelho

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

Alanis Morissette