Music Quotes

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Benny Green

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Henry Miller

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Pete Townshend

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Jerry Garcia

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

James Taylor

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Gertrude Stein

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Ferry

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

David Duchovny

For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Stevie Wonder

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Paulo Coelho

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley