Quotes for Music

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

Koffee

My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.

Romeo Santos

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Carlos Santana

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

Albert Hammond, Jr.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

David Lee Roth

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

Lady Gaga

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

Eminem

'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

Damien Chazelle

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Joe Cocker

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

Jeff Buckley

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Anthony Bourdain

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Elvis Presley

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Olga Kurylenko

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

Abraham Maslow

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

Mary J. Blige

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Garth Brooks

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Berry Gordy