Best 567 quotes in «music is quotes» category

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Jazz music is the power of now.

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

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Life without music is unthinkable.

Life without music is no life at all.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

More often than not, I'm worried about, where shouldn't we have music? Because the tendency is just to put everything everywhere all the time in a lot of movies. You end up just numbing the audience when you do that and it's not the best way to tell a story.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.