Music Quotes

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

If music be the food of love, play on.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.