Music Quotes

275. Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.

^{MC Ren}

276. I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

^{Willie Nelson}

277. We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.

^J-Hope

278. Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

^{F. Sionil Jose}

279. The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

^{Thomas Beecham}

280. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

^{William Blake}

281. To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

^Ilaiyaraaja

282. I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches – the lifestyle.

^{J Balvin}

283. Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.

^{Fantastic Negrito}

284. I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

^Enya

285. For me, music and life are all about style.

^{Miles Davis}

286. I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

^{John Lydon}

287. The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

^{Chris Thile}

288. I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.

^{Diana Ross}

289. For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

^{Paul Auster}

290. So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

^{Aaron Copland}

291. If you’re only a fan of the old music, that music’s gonna wind up sounding even older.

^{Johnny Van Zant}

292. If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

^{Sonia Sotomayor}

293. Country music is three chords and the truth.

^{Harlan Howard}

294. Play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would have challenged them to rethink what music was, or could be.

^{Mark Fisher}

295. I’m a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

^Afrojack

296. I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.

^{21 Savage}

297. One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

^{Baruch Spinoza}