Quotes About Music

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

I write music with an exclamation point!

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.