Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 4

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 4 provides more music quotes.

Image of Gioachino Rossini
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
- Gioachino Rossini
Collection: Music
Image of Tennessee Williams
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Music
Image of B. J. Thomas
If you have the burning desire to do music, the live performance is one of the major parts.
- B. J. Thomas
Collection: Music
Image of Art Blakey
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
Image of Ariana Grande
Music is really driving my whole life.
- Ariana Grande
Collection: Music
Image of Shakira
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
Collection: Music
Image of Joshua Logan
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
- Joshua Logan
Collection: Music
Image of Peter Steele
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
Collection: Music
Image of Frank Zappa
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
- Frank Zappa
Collection: Music
Image of Luciano Pavarotti
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
- Luciano Pavarotti
Collection: Music
Image of Juice Wrld
I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.
- Juice Wrld
Collection: Music
Image of Franz Liszt
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
- Franz Liszt
Collection: Music
Image of Chuck Berry
Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
- Chuck Berry
Collection: Music
Image of Jon Tester
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.
- Jon Tester
Collection: Music
Image of Amandla Stenberg
I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
- Amandla Stenberg
Collection: Music
Image of Genesis P-Orridge
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
- Genesis P-Orridge
Collection: Music
Image of Joshua Bell
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
Collection: Music
Image of Alan Rickman
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
Collection: Music
Image of Ainsley Harriott
My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.
- Ainsley Harriott
Collection: Music
Image of Becky Hill
Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig and I want to create that atmosphere for people.
- Becky Hill
Collection: Music
Image of Yo-Yo Ma
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
- Yo-Yo Ma
Collection: Music
Image of Fred Durst
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
- Fred Durst
Collection: Music
Image of Johann Sebastian Bach
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Collection: Music
Image of James Spader
If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
- James Spader
Collection: Music
Image of YoungBoy Never Broke Again
I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Collection: Music
Image of Prince
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
- Prince
Collection: Music
Image of Jay Griffiths
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
Collection: Music
Image of Eddie Van Halen
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
- Eddie Van Halen
Collection: Music
Image of Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Music
Image of Fela Kuti
The rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band - I'm talking about a whole continent in my music.
- Fela Kuti
Collection: Music
Image of Fats Domino
Some people say music's good for the soul and I believe that's right.
- Fats Domino
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Marley
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Music
Image of Lana Del Rey
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
- Lana Del Rey
Collection: Music
Image of Keith Richards
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
- Keith Richards
Collection: Music
Image of Jack Black
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
Collection: Music
Image of Frank Zappa
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
- Frank Zappa
Collection: Music
Image of Jonathan Davis
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
- Jonathan Davis
Collection: Music
Image of Michael Franti
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
- Michael Franti
Collection: Music
Image of Rod Wave
I'm a regular person who just makes nice music.
- Rod Wave
Collection: Music
Image of Billy Joel
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
- Billy Joel
Collection: Music
Image of Barbi Benton
I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.
- Barbi Benton
Collection: Music
Image of Sheila E.
The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
- Sheila E.
Collection: Music
Image of Lou Reed
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
- Lou Reed
Collection: Music
Image of Eminem
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
- Eminem
Collection: Music
Image of Mariah Carey
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
- Mariah Carey
Collection: Music
Image of J. Cole
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
- J. Cole
Collection: Music
Image of Kurt Cobain
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
- Kurt Cobain
Collection: Music
Image of Louis Armstrong
'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.
- Louis Armstrong
Collection: Music
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Music