Quotes for Music

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

Lionel Richie

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Kanye West

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

Polo G

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Dolly Parton

Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

Paramahansa Yogananda

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

Jennifer Aniston

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Kanye West

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

Henry Rollins

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Ziggy Marley

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

Tyler, The Creator

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Billy Joel

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

Yo-Yo Ma

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

Janet Jackson

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliott

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

Frank Ocean

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Michael Franti

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Anne Lamott

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

Jay-Z