Music Quotes

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Paul Klee

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Johann von Goethe

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Sir John Herschel

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

Kurt Vonnegut

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Ron Wood

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...

Pau (Pablo) Casals

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

Martin Gore

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Coverdale

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Michael Jackson

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

James Iha