Quotes for Music

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.

Robert Hilburn

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Fritz Lang

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

John McLaughlin

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

Derek Walcott

I would say I'm God's soldier; a music warrior.

Skip Marley

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Dick Clark

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Psy

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

William Congreve

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Bryan Ferry

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann

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

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

Rihanna

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

Taylor Swift

Mathematics is the music of reason.

James Joseph Sylvester

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

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

Music is really driving my whole life.

Ariana Grande