Quotes for Music

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

Ilaiyaraaja

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Maurice Ravel

You can get to know me through my music.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Jimmy Buffett

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

B. B. King

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Jerry Garcia

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

Johnny Depp

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Jack Black

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Flea

When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about 'The Awakening of Jacob,' which he did use in 'The Shining.'

Krzysztof Penderecki

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.

Melanie Martinez

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

Floor Jansen

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

Zack de la Rocha

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

Taylor Swift

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

James Taylor

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Louis Armstrong

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

Emma Stone

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry