Music Quotes

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Billy Gibbons

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Ezra Pound

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Ezra Pound

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Maurice Sendak

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

George Gershwin

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Shaun White

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nig

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Ray Charles

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

Eric Clapton

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Bruce Beresford

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Xun Zi

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

Bobby Vinton

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Rashida Jones

I want my music to do the explaining.

Demi Lovato

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mel Brooks

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Eminem