Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 2

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 2 provides more music quotes.

Image of Harlan Howard
Country music is three chords and the truth.
- Harlan Howard
Collection: Music
Image of Gloria Gaynor
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
- Gloria Gaynor
Collection: Music
Image of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Collection: Music
Image of Arvo Part
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
Collection: Music
Image of Noel Coward
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
- Noel Coward
Collection: Music
Image of Aloe Blacc
Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
- Aloe Blacc
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Dylan
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
- Bob Dylan
Collection: Music
Image of Louis Armstrong
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
- Louis Armstrong
Collection: Music
Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Collection: Music
Image of George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
- George Santayana
Collection: Music
Image of Lady Gaga
Pop music will never be low brow.
- Lady Gaga
Collection: Music
Image of Maya Angelou
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Music
Image of Yanni
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
- Yanni
Collection: Music
Image of Lana Del Rey
Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
- Lana Del Rey
Collection: Music
Image of Chance The Rapper
I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
- Chance The Rapper
Collection: Music
Image of David Gilmour
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
- David Gilmour
Collection: Music
Image of Taylor Swift
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
- Taylor Swift
Collection: Music
Image of Fats Domino
Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New Orleans.
- Fats Domino
Collection: Music
Image of Ed Sheeran
Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
- Ed Sheeran
Collection: Music
Image of Samantha Morton
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
- Samantha Morton
Collection: Music
Image of Gotye
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
- Gotye
Collection: Music
Image of Melanie Martinez
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.
- Melanie Martinez
Collection: Music
Image of Eminem
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
- Eminem
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Grohl
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Music
Image of Gustave Flaubert
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
Collection: Music
Image of Sonia Sotomayor
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
Collection: Music
Image of Harry Styles
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
- Harry Styles
Collection: Music
Image of Jimi Hendrix
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
- Jimi Hendrix
Collection: Music
Image of Rosalia
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
- Rosalia
Collection: Music
Image of The Weeknd
I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
- The Weeknd
Collection: Music
Image of Jim James
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
Collection: Music
Image of SZA
I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.
- SZA
Collection: Music
Image of David Lynch
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
- David Lynch
Collection: Music
Image of Neil Young
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
- Neil Young
Collection: Music
Image of Chester Bennington
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
- Chester Bennington
Collection: Music
Image of A Boogie wit da Hoodie
I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.
- A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Collection: Music
Image of Kendrick Lamar
I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
- Kendrick Lamar
Collection: Music
Image of Future
My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
- Future
Collection: Music
Image of Jay-Z
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
- Jay-Z
Collection: Music
Image of Bruno Mars
I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
- Bruno Mars
Collection: Music
Image of Jin
Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music.
- Jin
Collection: Music
Image of Miley Cyrus
Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
- Miley Cyrus
Collection: Music
Image of The Weeknd
When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
- The Weeknd
Collection: Music
Image of Sun Ra
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
- Sun Ra
Collection: Music
Image of Enrique Iglesias
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
- Enrique Iglesias
Collection: Music
Image of Teena Marie
I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.
- Teena Marie
Collection: Music
Image of J-Hope
When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.
- J-Hope
Collection: Music
Image of Etta James
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
- Etta James
Collection: Music
Image of Bad Bunny
Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.
- Bad Bunny
Collection: Music