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Quotes About Music

Our murmuring is the devil's music.
~ Thomas Watson
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
~ Joe Jonas
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
~ Brandon Boyd
I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it's as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.
~ FKA twigs
A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.
~ Marc Bolan
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.
~ Marc Jacobs
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
~ Rick Springfield
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
~ Neil Young
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
~ Charlie Parker
What about a blues in W, in the key of W.
~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk
I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
~ will.i.am
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
~ Maynard James Keenan
I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
~ Roger Waters
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
~ Barack Obama
You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'
~ Kanye West
The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart
~ Ville Valo
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
~ Robert Greene
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
~ Brian May
Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
~ Simone Elkeles
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
~ Igor Stravinsky
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
~ Thomas Beecham
Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.
~ Paul Stookey
I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.
~ Anthony Evans