Music Quotes

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Thomas Carlyle

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Paul Whiteman

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

Neil Young

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Albert Camus

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

Katherine Jenkins

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry Rollins

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Taylor Swift

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Billy Corgan

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

Lauryn Hill

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Katy Perry

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Zappa

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Billy Joel

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Stephen Hawking