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Quotes About Music

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
~ Joseph Goebbels
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
~ Richard Wagner
I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.
~ Joe Walsh
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
~ Max Roach
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
~ Ralph Vaughan Williams
Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.
~ Schoolboy Q
I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.
~ Adam Lambert
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
~ Duke Ellington
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music
~ Smokey Robinson
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
~ Ben Harper
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
~ Nina Simone
Let the music defuse all the tension.
~ Kanye West
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
~ Novak Djokovic
I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
~ Zedd
I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.
~ Christina Grimmie
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
~ Paul Weller
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
~ Paul Verlaine
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
~ Eminem
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.
~ Christopher Nolan
Jazz is about being in the moment.
~ Herbie Hancock
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.
~ G-Eazy
The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.
~ G-Eazy
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
~ Ringo Starr