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Quotes About Music

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
~ Sid Caesar
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
~ Herbert Spencer
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
~ Garth Brooks
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
~ Don McLean
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
~ Ray Charles
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~ Jerry Hall
Family is fun, way more fun than music.
~ Aaron Watson
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
~ Martin Luther
You can never stop discovering music.
~ Rashida Jones
I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
~ Nikki Reed
Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
~ Steve Vai
I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
~ Pharrell Williams
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
~ Madame de Stael
I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.
~ Frank Loesser
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
~ Michael Haneke
When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.
~ Chamillionaire
Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
~ Jean Cocteau
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
~ John Lennon
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
~ Joan Jett
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
~ Grace Jones
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
~ John Clellon Holmes
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
~ Anton Webern
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
~ Curt Sachs