Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich NietzscheMusic has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
AristotleMilitary justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho MarxTalking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve MartinIf music be the food of love, play on.
William ShakespeareThe earth has its music for those who will listen.
George SantayanaOne good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob MarleyMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas CarlyleIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee WilliamsThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert SchweitzerThe synthesis of pure calming food is breathing pure air, listening to good sounds, looking at good sights, and touching pure objects.
Sai BabaSometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi HendrixI just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi HendrixBlues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina AguileraThe thing I hate most about rock and roll is the tie dyed t-shirts, unless they're died with blood and urine of Phil Collins.
Kurt CobainThe poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da VinciMusic is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn MansonJazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank ZappaHe who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert EinsteinEveryone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
Henry RollinsMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoThrough the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences.
Sai BabaThe man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William ShakespeareMusic fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath TagoreKeep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Ingrid BergmanWhen I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.
Henry David ThoreauMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouLife's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William ShakespeareThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus AureliusMusic, for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo CoelhoMusic is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
PlatoI hate rap music which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
Dave BarryWhen music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
ConfuciusI didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
EminemMusic in performance is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaA composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank ZappaMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
ConfuciusMusic in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao TzuYou can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say ,so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank ZappaI just want to keep writing music.
Lady GagaPop music will never be low brow.
Lady GagaWell-written words are music.
William ShatnerMusic is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor SwiftI have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul IIAfter silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous HuxleyI try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi HendrixThat's what music is entertainment. The more you put yourself into it the more of you comes out in it.
Kurt CobainSometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
EminemIf being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do and I'll say it.
John LennonI decided to pursue music so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
Lady GagaMost people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank ZappaI like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk stoned people to actually wake up and think you're doing something.
Jim MorrisonMusic the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph AddisonThe 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.
Jimi HendrixI think I always had a musicality and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
Paul McCartneyI've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
EminemI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMusic is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were and are still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.
Kurt CobainThe only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music
George CarlinMy message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
Alanis MorissetteYou used to have to sing and convey emotion and now well technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina AguileraMusic has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion ' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller an idol of my childhood in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.
Woody AllenNo change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank ZappaI don't want to make niche-oriented music.
Lady GagaMusic is the fourth great material want first food then clothes then shelter then music.
Christian Nestell BoveeI'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic there's a commercial world around it: the ballet opera any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve MartinIf I'd had good discipline I might have gone into music.
Clint EastwoodIt's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Alanis MorissetteI'm gonna be making records anyway even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
Dolly PartonMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaMy goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi HendrixBy reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonJustice is sweet and musical, but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David ThoreauArt gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn MansonIn music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich NietzscheYou can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob DylanPop is actually my least favorite kind of music because it lacks real depth.
Christina AguileraDevelop 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 MillerI alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert FrostSpeaking purely from a musical standpoint I think I am a great performer.
Lady GagaEvery man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerUnless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady GagaExtraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel CowardNothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartneyHow many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me I was in.
Johnny DeppMy mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
Clint EastwoodNothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph AddisonFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoMy dad bless him was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Paul McCartneyWhere I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says 'What kind of music do you make?' and you say 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
Lady GagaI consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob DylanFor me the visual is just as important as the music.
Christina AguileraHere's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Bob DylanThere's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
Henry RollinsOnly the rare individual will turn his full attention towards that divinity. Most people will see only the physical appearance of the chariot its decorations and other such things as the fine raiment put on the sacred image inside the costumes worn by the dancers and musicians and all the sound and color of the festivities.
Sai BabaWhat I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady GagaMusic is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. CioranIt is a wise tune that knows its own father and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel ButlerMy son does not appreciate classical musicians such as the Stones, he is more into bands with names like "Heave" and "Squatting Turnips."
Dave BarryMusic when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.
John RuskinIt is piracy not overt online music stores which is our main competitor.
Steve JobsI want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
Lady GagaThe world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy RooneyI was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady GagaI got the regular call that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine and we had to see everything.
Harvey FiersteinMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerMusic is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George SantayanaIf a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauMusic is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo TolstoyI write music every day.
Lady GagaMusic is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John LennonFolk music is a bunch of fat people.
Bob DylanI would love to continue in music with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens I will bow down gracefully raise my kids and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Taylor SwiftEvery day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through and you make of it a dance a dirge or a life march as you will.
Thomas CarlyleIf you talk bad about country music it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly PartonMusic is my religion.
Jimi HendrixMusic is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon BonaparteI need drama in my life to keep making music.
EminemMany people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
Oliver Wendell HolmesI enjoy all forms of music - pop classical and opera.
Stephen HawkingWhat I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
Marilyn MansonThe business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor SwiftPsychoanalyses is like music lessons for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.
Woody AllenWell I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products partly so they're rewarded for their success partly so they can go on and do new things.
Bill GatesI turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
Christina AguileraThe French are the wittiest the most charming and up to the present at all events the least musical race on Earth.
StendhalWhen I die I want people to play my music go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi HendrixMusic will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.
Alanis MorissetteI'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis MorissetteMedicine to produce health must examine disease, and music to create harmony must investigate discord.
PlutarchMusic is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View ' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.
Steve MartinClassical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin HubbardLook when I started out mainstream culture was Sinatra Perry Como Andy Williams Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course there's no fitting into it now.
Bob DylanSome people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve PrefontaineI saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces as opposed to what I see it being now which is a way for me to actually communicate and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
Alanis MorissetteA few can touch the magic string and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell HolmesLooking back I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical and I think my mom was musical.
Paul McCartneyNo matter how many times people say it - 'Oh I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way definitely.
Steve MartinI think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment or at so light a price as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
StendhalThe poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.
Francis BaconMusic inflames temperament.
Jim MorrisonMusic expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor HugoPhilosophy is the highest music.
PlatoWhat influenced me was Tori Amos who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me and very inspiring before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
Alanis MorissetteMusic is a safe kind of high.
Jimi HendrixMusic makes me high on stage and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi HendrixYou are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. EliotThis land is your land and this land is my land sure but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob DylanThere's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music in article-writing in how I dress in how I live in my relationships in how I navigate paparazzi how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
Alanis MorissetteBut I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey FiersteinMusic is a beautiful opiate if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry MillerWe live in the mind in ideas in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry MillerI'm gonna be a superstar musician kill myself and go out in a flame of glory just ike Jimi Hendrix
Kurt CobainNext to the Word of God the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin LutherMy music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts, me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob MarleyPeople today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob DylanWithout music to decorate it time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank ZappaOver the last couple of years I've really worked toward balancing my life out more having a little bit more time with friends family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside so be it.
Alanis MorissetteI think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor SwiftWhen I first started doing my comedy act I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me which was juggling magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve MartinI listened motionless and still, And as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.
William WordsworthAunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician and never answer the door.
Charles M. SchulzThe poets did well to conjoin music and medicine because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Francis BaconHell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard ShawThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less but Nature more.
Lord ByronPersonally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape, that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.
EminemYou know fame is a funny thing man especially you know actors musicians rappers rock singers it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars you go to clubs everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
EminemDeath is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George EliotIf 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.
EminemPeople haven't always been there for me but music always has.
Taylor SwiftMusic is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
EminemAnything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't I don't really see a point to it.
Alanis MorissetteComus all allows, / Champagne dice music or your neighbour's spouse.
Lord ByronI decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
Marilyn MansonMy heart which is so full to overflowing has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin LutherA "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.
Carl JungThere is nothing stable in the world, uproar's your only music.
John KeatsMusic is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas FullerCherish your visions, cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts for out of them will grow delightful conditions all heavenly environment, of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.
James AllenPoetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.
William BlakeIt was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought this is it.
Paul McCartneyMusic with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. NixonThe flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect, it is too exciting.
AristotleAll the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank ZappaWe've actually gotten better musically over the years ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.
Dave BarrySome music really does suck!
Henry RollinsThe martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank SinatraI like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn the Punch Brothers and Marc Johnson the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio there's a lot of bluegrass there.
Steve MartinI'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock musician writer poet philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis MorissetteThe scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry RollinsThe opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MenckenMusic has charms to sooth a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William CongreveI became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob DylanMusic doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world then it can only happen through music.
Jimi HendrixOf all noises I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel JohnsonThe world's a better place since I chose music.
Henry RollinsWhen she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression whether it was through music or acting or dancing or painting or writing.
Alanis MorissetteI like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom StoppardBut I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity and that being able to join in musical activity along with dancing could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
E. O. Wilson