Music Quotes

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Phil Collins

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Joni Mitchell

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Lady Gaga

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Sting

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

James G. Huneker

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Lorin Maazel

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

Sun Ra

Music is the space between the notes.

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Claude Debussy

Collect impressions. Don

Claude Debussy, in a letter to h

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Claude Debussy, The Engulfed Cat

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Paul McCartney

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Norah Jones

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Well-written words are music.

William Shatner