Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Richard Parsons

If there is such thing as a perfect fit, Warner EMI Music is it.

Drake Bell

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

Aleksey Igudesman

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Stephen Marley

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

Orlando Bloom

He would often play a piece of music just before a take to set the mood.

Katie Johnson

I'm used to working with him. I know what to expect. It all transitions together so well, and the music is beautiful.

Conrad Sewell

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.

Johnny Marr

I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

David Archuleta

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

Mary Lambert

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Miles Davis

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

Miles Davis

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Miles Davis

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Joseph Addison

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Jorma Kaukonen

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

Joni Mitchell

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Khalil Gibran

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Hector Berlioz

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Ornette Coleman

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Al Jarreau

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

Billie Armstrong

It's nice to know rock music still has a place at MTV,