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Quotes About Music

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
~ Marty Stuart
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
~ Allan Bloom
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
~ Austin Carlile
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
~ Virgil Thomson
Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.
~ Angelique Kidjo
I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.
~ Kerry King
I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.
~ Conor Oberst
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
~ Syd Barrett
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
~ Pat Conroy, Beach Music
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
~ B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
~ Compay Segundo
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.
~ Danny Gokey
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
~ Cliff Richard
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
~ Grace Slick
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
~ David Byrne
You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
~ Elvin Jones
I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.
~ Robert Glasper
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
~ Julian Lennon
I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.
~ Jeff Beck
We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.
~ Thomas Bangalter
I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.
~ Juicy J
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
~ Richie Havens
I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
~ Roald Dahl