- As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma
- Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko
- Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
Ziggy Marley
- Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.
Jeff Lynne
- If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
- Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
- The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
Bad Bunny
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emil Cioran
- Great music is great music. It doesn’t matter what genre it belongs.
Stjepan Hauser
- I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Kylie Minogue
- A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
Mel Brooks
- The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
Roy Ayers
- A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
Barack Obama
- With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
Guru Randhawa
- A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.
Carl Jung
- Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
- Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
- Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Giuseppe Mazzini
- To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Brian Harris
- To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum
- When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Prince
- As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleasedwith what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
Wale
- We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
Francis Ford Coppola
- Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt Cobain
- Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem
- Music has no limits, borders or ages.
Thalia
- Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison
- Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.
Tulsi Kumar
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
- Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
- I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. Iacknowledge both.
J. Cole
- Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester
- My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
- That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
Harry Styles
- Music is there to get you through life’s ups and downs, good times and not so good times.
Rob Halford
- I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.
Damon Albarn
- I’m not a man of many words, I’m not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
Kris Allen
- This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
- I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.
Stephen Marley
- Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
Dimebag Darrell
- Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Charles Kennedy
- Reggae music don’t really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don’t mean black people. It mean people in general.
Burning Spear
- Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga
- God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna Summer
- Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman
- I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
Snoop Dogg
- Music really is our daily medicine.
Evelyn Glennie
- When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.
Joey Jordison
- Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
Conrad Hall
- Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.
Kirk Franklin
- For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s allmanufactured.
Dua Lipa
- When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
Yungblud
- To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Yolanda Adams
- Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius
- Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
A. J. McLean