Quotes for Music

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

Nick Jonas

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Lady Gaga

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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'.

Bob Newhart

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

Jacob Collier

Music is the silence between the notes.

Claude Debussy

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Barack Obama

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

John Lydon

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

Ilaiyaraaja

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

MF Doom

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

Marina and the Diamonds

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

Marvin Sapp

I love music - in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.

Alex Scott

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

Drake