Quotes for Music

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

Yo-Yo Ma

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Bruno Mars

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

Jay-Z

I believe that reggae music has always been a source of healing.

Koffee

I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

Albert Hammond, Jr.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Camille Paglia

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

Francis Ford Coppola

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.

Yungblud

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

Eddie Vedder

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Eminem

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Everyone deserves music.

Michael Franti

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Nina Simone

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Eminem

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Brad Paisley

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Frank Ocean