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Quotes About Music

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
~ Edgard Varese
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
~ James Weldon Johnson
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.
~ Albert Hammond, Jr.
I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.
~ Flying Lotus
Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
~ William Wordsworth
Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.
~ Gylve Nagell
I danced with passion to spite the music.
~ Gelsey Kirkland
I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'
~ Jonathan McReynolds
I don't want to kick people in the face with my music, I'm just vibing. It's a very cool vibe.
~ Teedra Moses
I really prefer electric music.
~ Syd Barrett
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
~ Anton Corbijn
I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.
~ Drake
I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
~ James Blunt
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
~ Janis Joplin
When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.
~ Linda Perhacs
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
~ Mike Love
I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.
~ Madonna Ciccone
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
~ Ziggy Marley
To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
~ Keri Hilson
Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.
~ William Fitzsimmons
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
~ Ezra Miller
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
~ Pythagoras
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit
~ Duncan Sheik
If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
~ James Hetfield