Music Quotes

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

Bill Monroe

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Temple Grandin

I love recording music.

J. J. Abrams

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

Jarvis Cocker

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Brian Eno

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Mickey Hart

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

Beth Ditto

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Jennifer Lopez

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Katherine Jenkins

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Axl Rose

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Pete Townshend

A lot of country music is sad.

Willie Nelson

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Michael Stipe

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Henry David Thoreau

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Jesse Jackson

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Ellie Goulding