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Quotes About Joy

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
~ Tom Petty
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
~ John McLeod
I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
~ James Taylor
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
~ Hugh Masekela
Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.
~ Michael Jackson
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
~ Sydney Smith
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
~ Alanis Morissette
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
~ Carole King
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.
~ Desmond Tutu
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
~ Charles Bukowski
I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
~ Derek Jeter
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.
~ James Tiptree Jr.
I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.
~ Jimmy Cliff
Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.
~ Snoop Dogg
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
~ Keith Richards
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
~ Halsey
All of heaven we have below.
~ Joseph Addison
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
~ Virgil
I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
~ Placido Domingo
I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
~ John Scofield
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
~ Robert Breault
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
~ Rodney Atkins
I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
~ William Shakespeare