Music Quotes

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Kristin Hersh

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Grace Slick

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Billy Joel

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

George Eliot

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pietro Mascagni

Every life has a soundtrack.There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory.

Jodi Picoult

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Annie Lennox

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

John Cusack

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archie Shepp

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Jeff Bridges

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

Music is like a huge release of tension.

James Taylor

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Mary Webb

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

David Byrne

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

W. H. Auden