Quotes for Music

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Prince

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

Chris Cornell

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Carl Jung

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Richard Bach

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Eddie Vedder

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Michael Jackson

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

Prince

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

Prince

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emil Cioran

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Kurt Cobain

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock