"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
Billy Joel"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
Ludwig van Beethoven"Music is the soundtrack of your life."
Dick Clark"Music is the strongest form of magic."
Marilyn Manson"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley"The world's most famous and popular language is music."
Psy"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
Dennis Gabor"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
Pablo Casals"Music can change the world because it can change people."
Bono"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."
B. B. King"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"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul"Music is love in search of a word."
Sidney Lanier"I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of."
T.I."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"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful."
Christina Milian"Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story."
Diane Paulus"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Every song is like a painting."
Dick Dale"When words leave off, music begins."
Heinrich Heine"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
Ludwig van Beethoven"'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it."
Iggy Pop"I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music."
Amandla Stenberg"Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening."
Aretha Franklin"Music is an outburst of the soul."
Frederick Delius"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
Louis Armstrong"I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly."
Momo Hirai"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"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
Maurice Ravel"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
Benjamin Britten"If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be."
Eddie Van Halen"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
David Bowie"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
William Wordsworth"I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion."
Grandmaster Flash"When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar."
KJ Apa"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
Jacques Barzun"Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was."
The Weeknd"We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God."
Joshua Bell"I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity."
Jay Park"I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night."
Michael Franti"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it."
Mickey Hart"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."
Edgar Winter"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
Allan Bloom"Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children."
Thalia"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"I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it."
Chris Cornell"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
Emil Cioran"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
Duke Ellington"I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips."
Michelle Branch"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Plato"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
Bruce Beresford"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
Steve Martin"Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them."
Jim James"I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down."
Novak Djokovic"Music is what our feelings sound like."
Vera Farmiga"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
Francoise Sagan"When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups."
John Coltrane"I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man."
George Michael"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"Music should be your escape."
Missy Elliott"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."
Adele"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."
E. Y. Harburg"Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions."
Mary Webb"If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music."
will.i.am"Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me."
Kailash Kher"I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened."
Johnny Depp"Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other."
Marvin Sapp"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."
Charles Baudelaire"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."
Eminem"Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose."
Michael Franti"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."
Dick Dale"You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story."
Vikramaditya Motwane"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."
Keith Richards"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
W. H. Auden"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."
Sarah McLachlan"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Kin Hubbard"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
Martin Mull"My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video."
Qandeel Baloch"My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music."
Shirley Ballas"Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music."
Michael Kors"Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements."
Wynton Marsalis"I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts."
Chris Stapleton"For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing."
Chris Pine"'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music."
Marc Anthony"Sometimes I fantasize about becoming a cartoon and only making music for cartoons. I can easily visualize my future in music when I go into that fantasy in my head."
Hunx"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
Jimi Hendrix"Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon."
Nat Wolff"Where words fail, music speaks."
Hans Christian Andersen"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Walter Lippmann"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"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
Pythagoras"Music is the great equalizer."
Mark Foster"There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts."
Anoushka Shankar"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."
Robert Moog"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life."
James Joseph Sylvester"There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness."
Kaskade"I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love."
Snoh Aalegra"I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life."
Bryson DeChambeau"I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything."
Charlie Puth"Music isn't what I do. It's who I am."
Raquel Castro"Music has no limits, borders or ages."
Thalia"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."
Taylor Swift"Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined."
Dayananda Saraswati"I feel sexy when I'm natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin."
Lotte Verbeek"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."
Andres Segovia"We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that."
Levon Helm"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
Martin Luther"I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl."
Ashley Wagner"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
William Lyon Phelps"White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate."
Narada Michael Walden"Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way."
Daniel Levitin"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
Alan Rickman"Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly."
Ellen G. White"Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment."
Taylor Swift"The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I'm left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life."
Yungblud"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!"
Keith Richards"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness."
Reba McEntire"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water."
Ray Charles"My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music."
Lil Nas X"Music is the silence between the notes."
Claude Debussy"Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is."
Louis Armstrong"The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard."
Chelsea Leyland"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"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"I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen."
Enya"I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music."
John Lydon"If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture."
Quincy Jones"When there are dogs and music, people have a good time."
Emmylou Harris"'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock."
Chris Cornell"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
Conrad Hall"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Noel Coward"I have a great affection for Indian culture and music."
John McLaughlin"Music is for every single person that walks the planet."
Robert Plant"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."
Neil Innes"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
Billie Holiday"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
Bryan Ferry"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth."
Ace Frehley"The real art of conducting consists in transitions."
Gustav Mahler"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
Stevie Nicks"There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience."
Paul Hindemith"No matter what I do, I can't help but feel that I'm under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny."
Steve Aoki"I feel like good music comes and goes in waves."
Santigold"Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music."
Nate Dogg"I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?"
Gucci Mane"Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it."
Sting"It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing."
Ed Sheeran"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it."
Robert Plant"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Elvis Presley"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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
Stanley Kubrick"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"When I pull up to music videos, I'm like, 'I've been doing 11-hour days since I was eight-years-old, so I'm not tripping.'"
24kGoldn"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"Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!"
Mary J. Blige"It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it."
Michael Kiwanuka"Music is really driving my whole life."
Ariana Grande"We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors. -J"
Hope"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"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."
Malcolm Arnold"It's always about the music, never about anything else."
Eddie Van Halen"I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'"
Lapo Elkann"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"The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good."
Madlib"Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music."
Bobby Vinton"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
George Bernard Shaw"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."
E. W. Howe"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
Thomas Carlyle"I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music."
Mel B"The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music."
Joey Jordison"The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon."
Anthony Bourdain"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Edith Sitwell"English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense."
Ken Watanabe"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
Louis Armstrong"I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the 'Cinderella' soundtrack, I thought, 'What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn't mind kicking butt?'"
Sarah J. Maas"If you are already happy, music heightens your joy."
Asha Bhosle"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago."
Peter Warlock"Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable."
Billy Sheehan"You are the music while the music lasts."
T. S. Eliot"I see music as fluid architecture."
Joni Mitchell"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
Dizzy Gillespie"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours."
Elton John"Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past."
Olga Kurylenko"Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax."
Taika Waititi"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"
John Cusack"That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing."
Chris Cornell"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."
Phil Collins"The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion."
Ludovico Einaudi"Music is a form of prayer."
Toru Takemitsu"My music is a reflection of my way of thinking, and I take risks because I know I must. If I win, I win, and if I don't, I still win."
Rosalia"Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music."
Dierks Bentley"If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place."
Romeo Santos"I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record."
John Oates"I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify."
Daniel Ek"The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant."
Bjorn Ulvaeus"Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us."
Frederick William Faber"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"A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid."
Alyssa Edwards"Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage."
Steve Sabol"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."If music be the food of love, play on."
William Shakespeare"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."
Thomas Fuller"It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist."
Tom Wopat"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
Frank Zappa"Music is only love looking for words."
Lawrence Durrell"I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove. -Jay"
Z"My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I feel like I've done everything in life that I've wanted. I just want to make people feel good and change people's lives with music, and that's it."
Cyrille Aimee"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life."
Roy Ayers"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
Agnes de Mille"My music is my soul speaking, literally. It's spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain."
Anuel AA"I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm."
Taylor Swift"If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too."
Billie Eilish"I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile."
Buddy Guy"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Gustav Mahler"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"I need drama in my life to keep making music."
Eminem"In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting."
Aretha Franklin"The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music."
Ryuichi Sakamoto"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail."
Luciano Pavarotti"Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life."
Kailash Kher"I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too."
Melanie Martinez"My music is like a diary. I use every experience."
Future"I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary."
Bono"I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm."
Jack White"I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it."
John Williams"Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song."
Kim Fields"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."
Bill Laswell"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
W. H. Auden"My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats."
Yancy Butler"Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot."
Gotye"We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels."
Elvis Costello"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"We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick."
Gary Rossington"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."
Martin Luther"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
Herbie Hancock"Mathematics is the music of reason."
James Joseph Sylvester"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
Joan Miro"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."
Randy Castillo"Music washes away the dust of every day life."
Art Blakey"I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'"
Mac DeMarco"I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything."
Alan Walker"Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance."
Giorgio Moroder"No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy."
Karen DeCrow"Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all."
Josh Homme"People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music."
Lenny Kravitz"I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer."
Lisa Loeb"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
Giuseppe Mazzini"The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space."
Michio Kaku"All music is beautiful."
Billy Strayhorn"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
John Lennon"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
Jean Cocteau"I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording."
Andrea Bocelli"Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you."
Marvin Sapp"Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people."
Ziggy Marley"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"Great music is in the ear of the beholder."
Noel Gallagher"Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage."
Goapele"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
Paul Simon"Music is my religion."
Jimi Hendrix"I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do."
Katy Perry"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
Corita Kent"Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things."
Tom Petty"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"Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world."
Damon Albarn"Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here."
John Shelton Reed"I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen."
Priyanka Chopra"Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do."
Alan Moore"I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song."
Glen Campbell"I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read."
Nigel Farage"Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me."
Jordan Peterson"I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties."
Steven Pinker"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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
Van Morrison"From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings."
Suzuka Nakamoto"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"Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it."
Jeff Lynne"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"I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve."
Ellie Goulding"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
Ludwig van Beethoven"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
John Ruskin"I look at you and I write down what I hear."
Virgil Thomson"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."
Bryan Ferry"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
Karl Lagerfeld"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"My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool."
Romeo Santos"Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music."
Kim Dotcom"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."
Eminem"I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music."
Charli XCX"I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage."
Tom Scholz"The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years."
David Bowie"Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!"
Marina and the Diamonds"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Van Morrison"I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know."
George Thorogood"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."
Lesley Garrett"The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie."
George Lucas"Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes."
Virgil Abloh"There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul."
Dhani Jones"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Igor Stravinsky"Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day."
RM"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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Ezra Pound"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
Bruce Springsteen"I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me."
Jack Black"Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music."
Arca"For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients. -Jean"
Michel Jarre"In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation."
David Bryan"Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music."
Stanley Crouch"I started doing non-surf stuff like commercials, short films, and music videos and just started expanding my filmmaking that way. I started doing that more for a career: you know, it was paying the bills, and it was challenging. I was stimulated by it."
Taylor Steele"I want people to get positive energy from our music."
Suga"I call architecture frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"We set out with nothing but music as our dream, but we didn't know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming tired, whether around the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That's how we started. -J"
Hope"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel."
Amanda Seyfried"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
Louis Armstrong"Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to."
Andra Day"I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music."
Kris Allen"I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook."
Joan Jett"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
Frank Zappa"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
Gustav Mahler"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
Isaac Stern"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."
Steven Curtis Chapman"Country music is three chords and the truth."
Harlan Howard"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through."
Lenny Kravitz"I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go."
Travis Barker"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"I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music."
John Grant"I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle."
Yo Gotti"The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking."
Nick Jonas"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."
Gary Wright"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time."
George Gershwin"Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about."
Gerard Way"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
Pat Conroy"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
Albert Schweitzer"Music is the medicine of the mind."
John A. Logan"I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter."
Geri Halliwell"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
Joseph Addison"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Gustave Flaubert"Pop music will never be low brow."
Lady Gaga"I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them."
Jason Whitlock"I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess."
Angus Young"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell."
Dave Matthews"Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world."
Ilaiyaraaja"When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you."
Joey Jordison"There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is."
will.i.am"A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song."
Rex Orange County"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."
Robert Smith"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
Elvis Presley"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Michael Tippett"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."
Ray Charles"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"Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master."
David Josiah Brewer"The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer."
Ravi Shankar"The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music."
Travis Scott"Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope."
Kamasi Washington"Music is a safe kind of high."
Jimi Hendrix"Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games."
Bjorn Ulvaeus"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
Robert Browning"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Ludwig van Beethoven"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Nat King Cole"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
Johann Sebastian Bach"In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace."
Michio Kaku"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
Jimmy Carter"I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival."
Tiesto"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
Steve Prefontaine"There's no religion but sex and music."
Sting"You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense."
Joe Hisaishi"Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body."
Antonio Damasio"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music."
Mark Zuckerberg"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
Arturo Toscanini"I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way."
Max Minghella"To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
Viggo Mortensen"Good music will always be recognized in the end."
Suga"God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful."
Donna Summer"I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have."
Wayne Shorter"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."
Bryan Ferry"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."
Toru Takemitsu"Please write music like Wagner, only louder."
Samuel Goldwyn"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument."
Aimee Mann"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
Gary Cherone"One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique."
Janelle Monae"I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches - the lifestyle."
J Balvin"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes."
Thomas Beecham"All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it."
Young Jeezy"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
William Shakespeare"I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest."
Swae Lee"Any good music must be an innovation."
Les Baxter"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Richard M. Nixon"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"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible."
Amanda Seyfried"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"Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going."
Bill Walton"Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives."
Paramahansa Yogananda"I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin."
Pope John Paul II"I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same."
Lizzo"Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside."
Andris Nelsons"I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be."
Chris Cornell"Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has."
Lou Reed"Music fathoms the sky."
Charles Baudelaire"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
Leonard Bernstein"Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember."
Manika"Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to 'represent.'"
Jme"A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin"I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the drums just happen to be my instrument."
Mike Portnoy"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
Andres Segovia"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
Ray Charles"Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting."
Michael Stipe"Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together."
Luis Fonsi"Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders."
Jacob Collier"The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge."
Jay Griffiths"I just love food and the art of it. There's such an art to being a good chef and the way you present food and the different ingredients you use. It's like music - you get inspiration from different genres. It's the same with art, too."
Orianthi"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."
Bruce Springsteen"Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want."
Giorgio Moroder"That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business."
Luke Bryan"It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around."
Mohit Chauhan"I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music."
Mike Portnoy"Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow."
Tom Jones"My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music."
Taryn Manning"You don't have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe."
Jisoo"The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career."
Sixto Rodriguez"Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today."
Ziggy Marley"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."
Ville Valo"Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do."
Koko Taylor"Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him."
Charlie Byrd"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"One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself."
Megalyn Echikunwoke"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."
Nina Simone"There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family."
Sam Hunt"I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert."
Eugene Ionesco"When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about."
Matisyahu"Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana."
Robert Plant"When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer."
Yungblud"Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport."
Pope Francis"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
Roy Ayers"I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it."
Pauly D"My taste in coffee has got better with age, and so has my taste in music."
Gavin Esler"The end of all good music is to affect the soul."
Claudio Monteverdi"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
Lawrence Durrell"I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music."
Finn Wolfhard"Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs."
Toby Keith"I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something."
Joey Jordison"It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it."
Gustavo Dudamel"If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body."
Fuzzy Zoeller"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Stephen Sondheim"Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song."
Paul Epworth"I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love."
Charlie Puth"My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me."
Aretha Franklin"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"You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins."
David Coverdale"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
Christian Nestell Bovee"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play."
Herb Alpert"Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?"
Miranda Lambert"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
Maurice Ravel"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
Ronald Reagan"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. -Joseph Gordon"
Levitt"I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me."
Peter Steele"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
Claude Debussy"It's the music that brings us together."
John Oates"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
John Erskine"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 a weapon in the war against unhappiness."
Jason Mraz"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
George Szell"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness."
Terry Riley"When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap."
Flula Borg"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
Frank Capra"Live music is the cure for what ails ya."
Henry Rollins"Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last."
Jorja Smith"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever."
Peabo Bryson"My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power."
Paulina Rubio"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
Howard Dietz"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
Bob Newhart"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
Lord Byron"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
Gyorgy Ligeti"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"Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins."
Peter Tork"I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess."
Dale Earnhardt Jr."When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in."
Eric Clapton"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz"The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. -Joseph Gordon"
Levitt"Music is the soul of language."
Max Heindel"Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words."
Nas"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"There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice."
Paulina Rubio"Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion."
Bruno Mars"Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life."
Daniel Barenboim"If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older."
Johnny Van Zant"You can never learn enough about music."
Mitski"Love is a friendship set to music."
Joseph Campbell"I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones."
Brian Eno"When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music."
Dua Lipa"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"'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights."
Andrea Bocelli"Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle."
Billie Joe Armstrong"A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you."
Zaytoven"I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music."
Grace Slick"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
Levon Helm"Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit."
Anupam Roy"Music is something that should give you peace."
Atif Aslam"As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music."
Trey Anastasio"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho Marx"I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel."
Justin Timberlake"Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night."
A. J. McLean"I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment."
Mitski"I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."
Eddie Vedder"In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe."
Pico Iyer"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby."
Melanie Martinez"What I really want is consistency - to keep working, for God to keep blessing me with all the amazing people in my life, to keep making good music, and to keep representing females out there."
Natti Natasha"I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills."
Cardi B"The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time."
Chris Thile"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
Dolly Parton"I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance."
A. R. Rahman"A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world."
Willie Nelson"Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva."
Amish Tripathi"They say women and music should never be dated."
Oliver Goldsmith"Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't."
Dan Reynolds"Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy."
Adele"What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations."
Adam Braun"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."
Ornette Coleman"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 pleased with 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"Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share."
Agnes Obel"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"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
Charlie Parker"I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around."
Eva Green"I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter."
Jamie Foxx"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
Van Morrison