Quotes for Music

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Prince

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

Zubin Mehta

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

Michael Jackson

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

Rita Ora

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Mencius

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Brian Eno

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

Sam Hunt

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Kid Rock

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Alanis Morissette

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music will save the world.

Pablo Casals

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Brian Eno

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Sting

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which you hear the music. For instance, listening to a piece of classical music in a film you love often changes your perception of it entirely.

Ludovico Einaudi

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Stevie Wonder

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Kurt Cobain

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Michael Stipe