Music Quotes

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

R. Kelly

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Buddy Holly

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Dolly Parton

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Jamie Foxx

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Vera Farmiga

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

Jessica Simpson

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Christina Aguilera

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loretta Lynn

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Adele

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Rod Stewart

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

David Byrne

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Diablo Cody