Top 1000 Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.

I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.

My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

Music inflames temperament.

Rap music was a savior to me.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

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

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

You can never learn enough about music.

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums.

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that's been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.

Music can be just one-sided if you hear it, but if you see it with a visual and an image, it opens up a whole new world. I feel like it's all connected.

The culture of the Dominican Republic definitely influenced me. We enjoy music in this crazy way; we celebrate absolutely everything.

The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.

I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the bigger picture.

Music is the soul of language.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

For me, music and life are all about style.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.