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Quotes About Music

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
~ Ice Cube
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
~ Toru Takemitsu
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
~ Kid Cudi
They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.
~ Christina Perri
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
~ Quincy Jones
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
~ Jay London
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
~ Erykah Badu
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
~ Randy Houser
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.
~ Carl Jung
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
~ David Boies
When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.
~ Robert Cheeke
Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.
~ Marva Dawn
I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.
~ John Kander
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
~ David Allan Coe
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
~ James Russell Lowell
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.
~ Joey Tempest
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
~ Ben Folds
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
~ Dave Grohl
I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
~ Ryan Guzman
I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
~ Dee Dee Ramone
Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.
~ Ferruccio Busoni