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Quotes About Music

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
~ Ron Carter
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
~ Juice Newton
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.
~ Kieron Gillen
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
~ Siobhan Fahey
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
~ John Diamond
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
~ Oscar Wilde
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.
~ Stan Getz
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
~ Ray Charles
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
~ Peter Fonda
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.
~ John Lurie
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
~ Chad Kroeger
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
~ Dave Grohl
Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
~ Frank Zappa
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
~ Gary Larson
Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing
~ David Lee Roth
All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.
~ Jack Teagarden
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
~ Alexander Pope
Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!
~ Grace Jones
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
~ Rob Pike
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
~ Robert Duvall
I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
~ Sarah McLachlan