Music Quotes - page 3

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)
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. View quote
Jean Paul
Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. View quote
Neil Innes
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. View quote
Alan Rickman
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. View quote
Bob Newhart
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. View quote
John Lennon
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. View quote
George Gershwin
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. (Thomas Fuller)
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. View quote
Frank Zappa
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. View quote
Frank Zappa
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. View quote
George Eliot
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. View quote
Johann Sebastian Bach
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
In memory everything seems to happen to music. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable. (Richard Wagner)
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise. View quote
Vangelis