Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 6

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 6 provides more music quotes.

Image of Taylor Swift
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
- Taylor Swift
Collection: Music
Image of Leonard Bernstein
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
- Leonard Bernstein
Collection: Music
Image of John Lennon
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
Collection: Music
Image of Bad Bunny
Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
- Bad Bunny
Collection: Music
Image of Neha Bhasin
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.
- Neha Bhasin
Collection: Music
Image of Gautham Menon
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
- Gautham Menon
Collection: Music
Image of Brent Faiyaz
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
- Brent Faiyaz
Collection: Music
Image of Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
- Aaron Copland
Collection: Music
Image of George Gershwin
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
- George Gershwin
Collection: Music
Image of Maya Angelou
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Music
Image of Gioachino Rossini
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
- Gioachino Rossini
Collection: Music
Image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
Collection: Music
Image of Michel Hazanavicius
Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.
- Michel Hazanavicius
Collection: Music
Image of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music my rampart, and my only one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collection: Music
Image of Franz Liszt
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
- Franz Liszt
Collection: Music
Image of Steven Pinker
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Music
Image of George Strait
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.
- George Strait
Collection: Music
Image of Romeo Santos
I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
- Romeo Santos
Collection: Music
Image of Alicia Keys
My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
- Alicia Keys
Collection: Music
Image of Ahmad Jamal
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
- Ahmad Jamal
Collection: Music
Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Collection: Music
Image of John Coltrane
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
- John Coltrane
Collection: Music
Image of Kirk Franklin
Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.
- Kirk Franklin
Collection: Music
Image of Coleman Hawkins
Music should always be an adventure.
- Coleman Hawkins
Collection: Music
Image of William Shakespeare
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
Collection: Music
Image of Billie Eilish
I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.
- Billie Eilish
Collection: Music
Image of Quincy Jones
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
- Quincy Jones
Collection: Music
Image of Kendrick Lamar
People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
- Kendrick Lamar
Collection: Music
Image of George Jean Nathan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan
Collection: Music
Image of Jonny Greenwood
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
- Jonny Greenwood
Collection: Music
Image of Dave Matthews
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
- Dave Matthews
Collection: Music
Image of Willie Nelson
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
Collection: Music
Image of Prince
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
- Prince
Collection: Music
Image of Oliver Sykes
Rock's gone soft, it's gone miserable and boring, there's not really much exciting about it. So it's important that we cross over, because we feel like we belong more in a place where people just like music and it's not about how heavy it is.
- Oliver Sykes
Collection: Music
Image of Yoko Ono
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
Collection: Music
Image of Stephen Marley
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
Collection: Music
Image of The Weeknd
Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
- The Weeknd
Collection: Music
Image of Charles Baudelaire
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
Collection: Music
Image of R. Kelly
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
- R. Kelly
Collection: Music
Image of Blair Underwood
It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
- Blair Underwood
Collection: Music
Image of Nicolas Cage
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
- Nicolas Cage
Collection: Music
Image of Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- Plato
Collection: Music
Image of Chris Cornell
'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
Collection: Music
Image of Corey Taylor
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
- Corey Taylor
Collection: Music
Image of Rod Wave
Music is a way of opening up.
- Rod Wave
Collection: Music
Image of Nina Simone
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
- Nina Simone
Collection: Music
Image of Big Freedia
It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter what type of situation they're in, we bounce all around New Orleans. Weddings, birthday parties, funerals. The whole nine yards, and it's a happy music, it turns people from a frown to a happy smile.
- Big Freedia
Collection: Music
Image of Rita Ora
I think music will thrive where it wants to.
- Rita Ora
Collection: Music
Image of J. Cole
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
- J. Cole
Collection: Music