Music Quotes

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Blythe Danner

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

The sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly.

The Killers

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Walter de la Mare

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Kim Carnes

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

Thia Megia

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

Lisa Marie Presley

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

Jacob Lusk

My mind begs for you in the soft, secret, silent places of the night... I thirst for you and without you my soul is a desert. I thought when I first met you, first saw you, that I loved you more than any woman had ever loved a man, but now I know the feeling only grows within me. You are the song I sing each day, each moment, each second. You are the melody of my life...

Gloria Smith

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Erwin Schrodinger

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Ringo Starr

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.

Susannah McCorkle

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Edie Brickell

Why don't you find out for yourself?Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.

Morrissey

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

Gary Oldman

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Anthony Davis