Quotes for Music

If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Joe Bonamassa

What's wrong with the 'Laffy Taffys' and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have club music. We gotta have kids' music.

Pimp C

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Mickey Hart

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Michelle Branch

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Billy Sheehan

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Bruce Beresford

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Koko Taylor

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Toru Takemitsu

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Gary Cherone

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Wopat

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Levon Helm

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro

The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

Chelsea Leyland

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Ornette Coleman

I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre.

Chris Young

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Aaron Copland

If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.

Asha Bhosle

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

Mitski