Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Martin Luther

Music is the 5th gospel.

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Michael Tilson Thomas

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Pat Metheny

Music is one big thing to me.

Pharrell Williams

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Pitbull

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Ringo Starr

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Tom Morello

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Tommy Shaw

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Robert Fripp

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Warren Zevon

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Ville Valo

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Victoria Legrand

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

Gretchen Wilson

Good music is good music.

Herbie Hancock

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

Iggy Pop

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Enrique Iglesias

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.