Quotes for Music

There's no religion but sex and music.

Sting

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

Frank Zappa

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Billy Joel

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

Michael Stipe

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Christina Milian

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Jeff Buckley

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Katy Perry

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

Thomas Bangalter

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

David Lammy

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.

Kali Uchis

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

Steven Tyler

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Samuel Goldwyn

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Ronald Reagan

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

Shania Twain

Music is like film to me.

The Weeknd

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Joseph Addison

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

Kanye West

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

Nicki Minaj