Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 3

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 3 provides more music quotes.

Image of H. L. Mencken
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Music
Image of Christopher Lee
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
- Christopher Lee
Collection: Music
Image of Tim Burton
Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that.
- Tim Burton
Collection: Music
Image of Fredric Jameson
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
- Fredric Jameson
Collection: Music
Image of Lupe Fiasco
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.
- Lupe Fiasco
Collection: Music
Image of Paul Horn
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
- Paul Horn
Collection: Music
Image of A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Getting people to like my music was challenging at first. It's hard to get people to like your music. There isn't a simple formula that automatically makes people like you.
- A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Collection: Music
Image of Peter Tosh
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?
- Peter Tosh
Collection: Music
Image of Caroline Polachek
I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.
- Caroline Polachek
Collection: Music
Image of Paulo Coelho
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Music
Image of John Coltrane
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
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Grohl
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Music
Image of Marvin Gaye
Music, not sex, got me aroused.
- Marvin Gaye
Collection: Music
Image of Gary Oldman
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
- Gary Oldman
Collection: Music
Image of David Guetta
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
- David Guetta
Collection: Music
Image of Leonard Cohen
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.
- Leonard Cohen
Collection: Music
Image of Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
- Jelly Roll Morton
Collection: Music
Image of Carl Jung
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Grohl
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Music
Image of Eminem
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
- Eminem
Collection: Music
Image of Yahoo Serious
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Yahoo Serious
Collection: Music
Image of Travis Scott
I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
- Travis Scott
Collection: Music
Image of Jack Jones
When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'
- Jack Jones
Collection: Music
Image of Iggy Pop
'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
Collection: Music
Image of Pico Iyer
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
Collection: Music
Image of Truman Capote
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- Truman Capote
Collection: Music
Image of Emmylou Harris
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
- Emmylou Harris
Collection: Music
Image of Thomas Beecham
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
- Thomas Beecham
Collection: Music
Image of Malcolm Arnold
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
- Malcolm Arnold
Collection: Music
Image of Ann Demeulemeester
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
- Ann Demeulemeester
Collection: Music
Image of George Washington Carver
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
- George Washington Carver
Collection: Music
Image of Mark Knopfler
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
- Mark Knopfler
Collection: Music
Image of Tory Lanez
I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
- Tory Lanez
Collection: Music
Image of Sade Adu
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
- Sade Adu
Collection: Music
Image of Gil Scott-Heron
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
- Gil Scott-Heron
Collection: Music
Image of Jill Scott
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
- Jill Scott
Collection: Music
Image of Dr. Dre
I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
- Dr. Dre
Collection: Music
Image of Gregory Porter
The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.
- Gregory Porter
Collection: Music
Image of Ornette Coleman
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
- Ornette Coleman
Collection: Music
Image of Ronnie Barker
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
- Ronnie Barker
Collection: Music
Image of Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
- Agnes de Mille
Collection: Music
Image of Hozier
All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
- Hozier
Collection: Music
Image of Future
Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
- Future
Collection: Music
Image of Ray Bradbury
If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: Music
Image of Thomas Merton
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Music
Image of Johnny Van Zant
If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
- Johnny Van Zant
Collection: Music
Image of Buddy Holly
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
- Buddy Holly
Collection: Music
Image of The Weeknd
My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
- The Weeknd
Collection: Music
Image of SZA
I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
- SZA
Collection: Music