Music Quotes

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Jimmy Page

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Steven Halpern

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Rashida Jones

I do love country music.

Kesha

Music became a healer for me.

Eric Clapton

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Talib Kweli

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Brian Eno

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Paul Hindemith

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Annie Lennox

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alanis Morissette

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Billy Corgan

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

Katherine Jenkins

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Thomas Beecham

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein