Music Quotes

The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long: Sits long and rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.

James Thomson (B.V.)

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

George Strait

Who can live without it? ? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?

ABBA

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Nina LaCour

I could not accept the academic idea that the purpose of music was communication, because I noticed that when I conscientiously wrote something sad, people and critics were often apt to laugh. I determined to give up composition unless I could find a better reason for doing it than communication. I found this answer from Gira Sarabhai, an Indian singer and tabla player: The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. I also found in the writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswammy that the responsibility of the artist is to imitate nature in her manner of operation. I became less disturbed and went back to work.http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html

John Milton Cage, An Autobiograp

We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

John Milton Cage, An Autobiograp

Wrists are for bracelets, not for cutting.

Kellin Quinn

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and transformed her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Jess C. Scott

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Michael Gambon

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

Live music is better.

Neil Young

And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

Steven R. Boyett

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Fred Durst

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

Tobe Hooper

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Charles Mingus

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Theocritus

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

John Lennon

Well, I'm proud of it. I was declard persona non grata not by the country but by a terrorist regime. But I know that Cubans love me and my music.

Gloria Estefan