Quotes for Music

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Marvin Gaye

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'

Trent Reznor

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

Music has no limits, borders or ages.

Thalia

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Salman Rushdie

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Jay-Z

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Chris Cornell

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Nick Cave

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Kurt Cobain

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

Bill Walton

I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

Charlie Puth

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Eminem

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Yo-Yo Ma