Music Quotes - page 9

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. (Arthur Sullivan)
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. View quote
Kenny Rogers
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. View quote
Abraham Maslow
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good. View quote
Jerry Goldsmith
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. View quote
Rebecca West
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. (Chuck Palahniuk)
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. View quote
Jonathan Davis
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. View quote
Van Morrison
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. View quote
Oscar Wilde
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. View quote
David Lee Roth
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Sundays observe think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music. (George Herbert)
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! View quote
Olaf Stapledon
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature. View quote
Justin Bieber
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. View quote
W. C. Handy