Music Quotes

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Gustav Mahler

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Jack Black

I've sung other people's music all my life.

Adam Lambert

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Eddie Izzard

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Buddy Guy

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Kesha

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Martin Scorsese

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

David Byrne

Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.

Demi Lovato

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

Joan Jett

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Gabriel Marcel

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann