Music Quotes

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

Harry Connick, Jr.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Oscar Wilde

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde

It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Bertrand Russell

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Maynard James Keenan

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Jean Genet

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Serj Tankian

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

David Byrne

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Carlos Santana

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Ani DiFranco

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Maynard James Keenan

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Norah Jones

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Carl Jung

The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Frank Sinatra

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Jimi Hendrix