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Quotes About Music

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.
~ Mike Stern
Put out great music, and that's that
~ Foxy Brown
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
~ Ornette Coleman
Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.
~ Brian Blade
There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.
~ Michael Hutchence
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.
~ George Wein
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
~ B. B. King
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.
~ Dave Edmunds
Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
~ Hans Zimmer
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
~ Lotte Lehmann
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.
~ Jol Dantzig
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
~ Victor de Laprade
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
~ Charlie Haden
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
~ Mary Lou Williams
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~ Helmut Walcha
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
~ Sergei Prokofiev
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
~ George Crumb
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
~ Giacomo Puccini
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.
~ Julius Hemphill
Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.
~ Anne Frasier, Hush
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
~ Nancy Werlin, Impossible