All Quotes

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
‐‐ El DeBarge

Music really is our daily medicine.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.
‐‐ Imelda May

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.
‐‐ Robby Benson

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
‐‐ Clare Bowen

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
‐‐ Ville Valo

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'
‐‐ Jillionaire

Music's another big love of mine.
‐‐ Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
‐‐ Ray Charles

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.
‐‐ Julian Lennon

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.
‐‐ Eric Church

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
‐‐ Charlie Byrd

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
‐‐ Elliott Yamin

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
‐‐ Gary Wright

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.
‐‐ Josh Homme

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
‐‐ Chris Milk

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Music should always be an adventure.
‐‐ Coleman Hawkins

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
‐‐ Toru Takemitsu

Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
‐‐ Steve Forbert

Music should be your escape.
‐‐ Missy Elliott

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
‐‐ Lou Reed

Music should never be harmless.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
‐‐ Peabo Bryson

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
‐‐ Jill Scott

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
‐‐ Jerry Only

Music stops you from thinking.
‐‐ Peter Weir

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Music tells no truths.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
‐‐ Sean Paul

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.
‐‐ Chet Faker

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
‐‐ Florence Welch

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.
‐‐ Pitbull

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons