Music Quotes

218. Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!

^{Lauryn Hill}

219. I don’t really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

^Bakermat

220. I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.

^{Till Lindemann}

221. Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

^Vangelis

222. I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

^{Arvo Part}

223. Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

^Macklemore

224. With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

^{Jon Batiste}

225. Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

^{Eric Clapton}

226. Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

^{Dexter Gordon}

227. Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

^{Yehudi Menuhin}

228. I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

^{Pope John Paul II}

229. No matter where I’m at in life, whether I’m in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can’t act too hard about that.

^{A Boogie wit da Hoodie}

230. I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.

^Shakira

231. Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

^{Diane Paulus}

232. Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

^{Marilyn vos Savant}

233. I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

^{Robert Fulghum}

234. Music isn’t what I do. It’s who I am.

^{Raquel Castro}

235. Ladies and gentleman, I’ve suffered for my music, now it’s your turn.

^{Neil Innes}

236. How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

^Confucius

237. I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

^{A. R. Rahman}

238. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

^{Jimmy Carter}

239. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

^{Henry Miller}

240. Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

^{Charlie Parker}

241. Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

^{Joel Madden}

242. True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

^{Garth Brooks}

243. Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

^{Lady Gaga}

244. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

^{Johnny Cash}

245. Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

^{Samuel Butler}

246. Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.

^{Dan Reynolds}

247. Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

^{Andrea Bocelli}

248. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

^{Khalil Gibran}

249. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

^{Bonnie Raitt}

250. I feel sexy when I’m natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.

^{Lotte Verbeek}

251. In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

^{George Szell}

252. Country’s hip; it’s cool music.

^{Ricky Skaggs}

253. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

^{Warren Bennis}

254. It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

^{Lenny Kravitz}

255. Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

^Rihanna

256. I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

^{Novak Djokovic}

257. Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

^{Wassily Kandinsky}

258. I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.

^{Jay Park}

259. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

^{Bruce Springsteen}

260. It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

^{James Baldwin}

261. Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.

^{Jill Scott}

262. My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

^{Mark Knopfler}

263. Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

^Paracelsus

264. A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

^{Shreya Ghoshal}

265. The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.

^{Al Green}

266. I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

^Kygo

267. Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

^{Yoko Ono}

268. Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.

^{William Stafford}

269. I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

^{Tyler, The Creator}

270. I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

^{George Michael}

271. The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

^{Claudio Monteverdi}

272. I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.

^{Stephen Sondheim}

273. I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

^{Neneh Cherry}

274. I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

^{John Coltrane}