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Quotes About Music

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
~ Garth Brooks
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
~ Miles Davis
I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.
~ Mateus Ward
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
~ Seth Godin
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
~ John Lydon
I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.
~ Misty Copeland
You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.
~ John Green
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.
~ Oliver Sacks
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
~ Billy Joel
...music is the living God in our bosoms.
~ Richard Wagner
Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.
~ Jello Biafra
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
~ Steven Morrissey
I've grown up a lot, I've experienced a lot, I'm in love, I'm super happy with who I am and comfortable in my own skin and that's definitely gonna be portrayed in the music and in the lyrics.
~ Jordin Sparks
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
~ Bill Wyman
I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.
~ Geri Halliwell
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
~ Leo Kottke
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
~ Plato
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
~ Isabelle Huppert
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
~ Sean O Faolain
I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.
~ Roscoe Mitchell
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
~ Brad Paisley
All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.
~ John Updike