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Quotes About Music

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
~ Glenn Hughes
I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
~ Merle Haggard
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
~ Prince
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
~ Dan Fogelberg
I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
~ Torrey DeVitto
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
~ Gary Numan
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
~ Josh Groban
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
~ Thelonious Monk
I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.
~ Jennifer Niven
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
~ Kim Gordon
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
~ Martin Luther
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
~ Yanni
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.
~ Harold B. Lee
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
~ Lionel Richie
Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
~ Tre Cool
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.
~ Keith Jarrett
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
~ James Taylor
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
~ Billy Joel
Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.
~ Mojo Nixon
With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
~ Sun Ra
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
~ Alfred Jarry
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
~ Sinead O'Connor