Quotes for Music

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

Rob Halford

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do.

Louis Tomlinson

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

Playboi Carti

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I think music is supposed to be shared.

Mitski

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Ozzy Osbourne

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

Vladimir Horowitz

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Taylor Swift

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Snoop Dogg

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

Stjepan Hauser

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Felix Mendelssohn

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

I'm probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.

Aaron Dessner

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'

Jack Jones

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Maria Callas

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that.

Tim Burton

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Ringo Starr