Music Quotes

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

Ellie Goulding

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Peter Tork

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Joni Mitchell

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Jonathan Davis

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Felix Mendelssohn

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Morgan Freeman

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Joan Jett

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Joni Mitchell

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Lil Wayne

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Billy Wilder

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Lil Wayne

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Jack White

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel