Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 5

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 5 provides more music quotes.

Image of The Weeknd
I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
- The Weeknd
Collection: Music
Image of Thomas Beecham
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
- Thomas Beecham
Collection: Music
Image of Kanye West
My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.
- Kanye West
Collection: Music
Image of Nina Simone
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
- Nina Simone
Collection: Music
Image of Henry Rollins
I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Music
Image of Darren Aronofsky
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
- Darren Aronofsky
Collection: Music
Image of Rosalia
I love flamenco. It's very difficult music to sing. But I think of any genre as a snow globe - you don't admire it for its stillness. You have to shake it up and see how it explodes.
- Rosalia
Collection: Music
Image of Neil Young
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
- Neil Young
Collection: Music
Image of Juice Wrld
Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.
- Juice Wrld
Collection: Music
Image of Travis Scott
I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.
- Travis Scott
Collection: Music
Image of Ed Sheeran
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
- Ed Sheeran
Collection: Music
Image of Erykah Badu
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
- Erykah Badu
Collection: Music
Image of Taylor Swift
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
- Taylor Swift
Collection: Music
Image of Ashthon Jones
I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.
- Ashthon Jones
Collection: Music
Image of Playboi Carti
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
- Playboi Carti
Collection: Music
Image of Snoop Dogg
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
- Snoop Dogg
Collection: Music
Image of Javed Ali
Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is Sufi.
- Javed Ali
Collection: Music
Image of Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
- Jimi Hendrix
Collection: Music
Image of Terry Teachout
Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.
- Terry Teachout
Collection: Music
Image of Jay-Z
The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.
- Jay-Z
Collection: Music
Image of Dr. Dre
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
- Dr. Dre
Collection: Music
Image of Plato
Philosophy is the highest music.
- Plato
Collection: Music
Image of Smokey Robinson
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
- Smokey Robinson
Collection: Music
Image of Jim Root
Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.
- Jim Root
Collection: Music
Image of Melanie Martinez
I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.
- Melanie Martinez
Collection: Music
Image of Tyler, The Creator
The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.
- Tyler, The Creator
Collection: Music
Image of Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
- Richard Wagner
Collection: Music
Image of Martin Luther
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Music
Image of Giorgio Moroder
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
- Giorgio Moroder
Collection: Music
Image of Jimi Hendrix
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
- Jimi Hendrix
Collection: Music
Image of Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
- Louis Armstrong
Collection: Music
Image of J-Hope
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
- J-Hope
Collection: Music
Image of Tupac Shakur
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
- Tupac Shakur
Collection: Music
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Collection: Music
Image of Pablo Casals
Music will save the world.
- Pablo Casals
Collection: Music
Image of Eminem
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
- Eminem
Collection: Music
Image of Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Collection: Music
Image of Lenny Kravitz
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
- Lenny Kravitz
Collection: Music
Image of Robbie Robertson
Music should never be harmless.
- Robbie Robertson
Collection: Music
Image of Melanie Martinez
My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.
- Melanie Martinez
Collection: Music
Image of Juice Wrld
I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.
- Juice Wrld
Collection: Music
Image of Dick Dale
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
- Dick Dale
Collection: Music
Image of Aretha Franklin
Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
- Aretha Franklin
Collection: Music
Image of Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
- Lawrence Durrell
Collection: Music
Image of Bob Dylan
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
- Bob Dylan
Collection: Music
Image of Michio Kaku
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
Collection: Music
Image of Art Blakey
Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
Image of Leonard Cohen
Music is the emotional life of most people.
- Leonard Cohen
Collection: Music
Image of Michael Jackson
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
- Michael Jackson
Collection: Music