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Quotes About Music

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.
~ Steven Morrissey
Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.
~ Danny Gokey
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.
~ James Hillman
I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.
~ Johnny Mathis
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
~ Laz Alonso
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
~ Rene Descartes
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.
~ Frank Zappa
I've been playing music most of my life.
~ Adam Duritz
all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
~ Charles Bukowski
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
~ John Frusciante
My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.
~ Pete Seeger
Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.
~ T.I.
I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
~ Ginuwine
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.
~ Rudolf Steiner
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
~ Mick Jagger
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
~ Robinson Jeffers
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
~ Igor Stravinsky
When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
~ Huey Lewis
I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
~ Coleman Hawkins
If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face
~ Christian Coma
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
~ Susannah McCorkle
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.
~ Martin Walser
Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~ Cat Stevens