Quotes for Music

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

I've never stopped making new music, and whether the audience wants to hear it or not, I'm going to play it. Because I'm an artist, and I create, and I've got new stuff.

Peter Frampton

You don't change country music; it changes you.

Ashley McBryde

From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.

Suzuka Nakamoto

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

Shawn Fanning

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

George Strait

Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music.

Jin

I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

Kip Moore

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

Johann Sebastian Bach

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

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

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

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

Aaron Dessner

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

Samuel Barber

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Kate Bush

I want people to know that I'm more than just a pretty girl that makes music.

Rubi Rose

I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.

William Eggleston

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

Maynard Ferguson

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

Toru Takemitsu

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