Music Quotes

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

When words leave off, music begins.

Music should be your escape.

Music is love in search of a word.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Music is the soul of language.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.