Music Quotes

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Carlos Santana

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tom Stoppard

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

Steve Jobs

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Christina Aguilera

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Beth Ditto

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Shania Twain

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Joan Jett

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

David Bowie

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

Clarence Clemons

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Joan Jett

You can never stop discovering music.

Rashida Jones

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

Albert Einstein

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

Diane Kruger

Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world.

Anonymous

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

Rebecca West

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

John Hughes

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Billy Corgan

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys