Quotes for Music

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Diane Paulus

I like hard, aggressive music.

Lemmy

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Grace Slick

I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.

Daniel Ek

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Taio Cruz

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

Joe Hisaishi

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

I think I'm probably gonna quit music.

Justin Bieber

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Gabriel Marcel

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

My pure love is playing music.

Jamie Cullum

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

Melanie Martinez

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Alan Jackson

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

Sia

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

Camila Cabello

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Isaac Stern

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Cyndi Lauper

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Chris Martin