Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Aristotle

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Ben Jonson

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Robbie Robertson

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

Robbie Robertson

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Howard Shore

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Xavier Rudd

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

Yanni

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Yanni

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Brendan Fletcher

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

Brendon Urie

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Becky G

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Ben Barnes

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Boy George

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

Big Sean

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

Chris Robinson

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Chris Robinson

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Chris Robinson

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Christo

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Dave Grohl

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.