Quotes for Music

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Paul Simon

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Gerard Way

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Nat Wolff

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Dizzy Gillespie

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Nat King Cole

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sarah McLachlan

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Billy Wilder

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Coverdale

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Herb Alpert

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Miranda Lambert

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Isaac Stern

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Dimebag Darrell

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Dhani Jones

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

Alexandre Desplat

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Albert Einstein

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Tony Hawk

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Kailash Kher