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Quotes About Music

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.
~ Don Kardong
I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.
~ Tim Hecker
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
~ Bobby McFerrin
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
~ Norah Jones
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.
~ Bill Bruford
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
~ John Philip Sousa
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
~ A. J. McLean
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
~ Alban Berg
Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
~ Noel Gallagher
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
~ Enrique Iglesias
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
~ Ellie Goulding
My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.
~ Lucy Lawless
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.
~ Bill Engvall
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
~ Helen Vendler
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
~ Miles Davis
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
~ Steve Lacy
I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
~ Ville Valo
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.
~ Zubin Mehta
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
~ Jonny Greenwood
My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."
~ Milton Berle
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
~ Ryan Tedder