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Quotes About Music

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.
~ Mike Dirnt
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
~ Paul McCartney
I can play all I know in eight bars.
~ Charlie Parker
That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.
~ Art Blakey
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
~ Jerry Garcia
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
~ Jeff Buckley
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.
~ Tom Morello
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
~ Matthew Bellamy
Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
~ Richard Simmons
I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
~ Geri Halliwell
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
~ Robert Schumann
The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
~ Thelonious Monk
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.
~ Melanie Martinez
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
~ Steve Reich
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
~ Brian Eno
Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.
~ Drake
I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears
~ Miyavi
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
~ Daniel Tammet
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
~ Charles Ives
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
~ Michiel Huisman
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
~ Charles Mingus