Category: Quotes About Music

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time. -Norah Jones

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers. -Kid Rock

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that. -Evelyn Glennie

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil…

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. -Scott Weiland

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. -Walter Savage Landor

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?' -Danny Boyle

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies,…

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. -Dizzy Gillespie

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. -Carlos Santana

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. -Tori Amos

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. -Joan Jett

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. -Jesse Jackson

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. -E. W. Howe

Music is the universal language of mankind. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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…

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

Good music is very close to primitive language. -Denis Diderot

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. -David Byrne

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. -Eric Clapton