Music Quotes

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Norah Jones

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Christina Aguilera

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Chris Barber

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Daniel Radcliffe

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Yancy Butler

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Brian Eno

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Layne Staley

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

Mumford &amp Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

Ellie Goulding

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Byrne

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Billy Joel

Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Arthur Winter

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I write music every day.

Lady Gaga

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Thomas Mann

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Herbert Spencer

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook