Music in Words: Quotes That Celebrate Sound and Harmony - Page 7

Discover the magic of music through quotes that celebrate its power to heal, inspire, and uplift our souls. Page 7 provides more music quotes.

Image of Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Music
Image of Jacob Collier
I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections runs the risk of removing a lot of the magic that makes this music really special, and diminishes music's ability to connect with us as human beings. We are all imperfect, after all.
- Jacob Collier
Collection: Music
Image of Kamala Harris
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
- Kamala Harris
Collection: Music
Image of Orlando Brown
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
- Orlando Brown
Collection: Music
Image of YoungBoy Never Broke Again
You can get to know me through my music.
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Collection: Music
Image of Adele
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
- Adele
Collection: Music
Image of Ed Sheeran
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
- Ed Sheeran
Collection: Music
Image of Maya Angelou
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Music
Image of Arthur Rubinstein
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Collection: Music
Image of RM
Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
- RM
Collection: Music
Image of Maurice Ravel
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
- Maurice Ravel
Collection: Music
Image of P. J. Harvey
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
- P. J. Harvey
Collection: Music
Image of Tyler, The Creator
I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
- Tyler, The Creator
Collection: Music
Image of Soulja Boy
If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.
- Soulja Boy
Collection: Music
Image of Honore de Balzac
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Music
Image of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
- Richard Wagner
Collection: Music
Image of Dizzy Gillespie
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
- Dizzy Gillespie
Collection: Music
Image of David Bowie
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
- David Bowie
Collection: Music
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: Music
Image of Rihanna
Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
- Rihanna
Collection: Music
Image of Maggie Rogers
That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.
- Maggie Rogers
Collection: Music
Image of Renee Rapp
I become a very different person when Im writing music. I have zero anxiety when Im doing it.
- Renee Rapp
Collection: Music
Image of Claude Debussy
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
- Claude Debussy
Collection: Music
Image of Anne Hathaway
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
- Anne Hathaway
Collection: Music
Image of Damien Chazelle
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
- Damien Chazelle
Collection: Music
Image of Bakermat
I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.
- Bakermat
Collection: Music
Image of Burning Spear
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
- Burning Spear
Collection: Music
Image of Thomas Fuller
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
- Thomas Fuller
Collection: Music
Image of George Thorogood
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
- George Thorogood
Collection: Music
Image of Karl Lagerfeld
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
- Karl Lagerfeld
Collection: Music
Image of Bryan Ferry
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
- Bryan Ferry
Collection: Music
Image of Billy Strayhorn
All music is beautiful.
- Billy Strayhorn
Collection: Music
Image of Stevie Nicks
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
- Stevie Nicks
Collection: Music
Image of Kin Hubbard
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard
Collection: Music
Image of Howard Dietz
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz
Collection: Music
Image of Virgil Thomson
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
- Virgil Thomson
Collection: Music
Image of Jacques Barzun
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
- Jacques Barzun
Collection: Music
Image of Bruce Beresford
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
- Bruce Beresford
Collection: Music
Image of Les Baxter
Any good music must be an innovation.
- Les Baxter
Collection: Music
Image of Isaac Stern
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
- Isaac Stern
Collection: Music
Image of Buddy Guy
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
- Buddy Guy
Collection: Music
Image of John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Music
Image of Bobby Vinton
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
- Bobby Vinton
Collection: Music
Image of Michael Tippett
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
- Michael Tippett
Collection: Music
Image of Yancy Butler
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
- Yancy Butler
Collection: Music
Image of Nat King Cole
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
- Nat King Cole
Collection: Music
Image of Sarah McLachlan
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
- Sarah McLachlan
Collection: Music
Image of Paulina Rubio
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
- Paulina Rubio
Collection: Music
Image of Aimee Mann
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
- Aimee Mann
Collection: Music