Good Quotes

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

~ Jean Cocteau

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

~ Ann Demeulemeester

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

~ Claudio Monteverdi

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

~ Eric Clapton

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

~ Jon Crosby

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

~ Paul Hindemith

What's really good is African drum music.

~ Fiona Apple

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

~ Mike Figgis

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

~ Louis Armstrong

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

~ Santigold

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

~ Louis Armstrong

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

~ Kendrick Lamar

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

~ Isaac Hanson

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

~ W. H. Auden

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

~ P. J. Harvey

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

~ Oscar Wilde

Good rock music always tends to be around.

~ Dave Davies

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

~ Howard Gardner

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

~ Al Jarreau

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

~ Florenz Ziegfeld

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

~ Quentin Tarantino

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

~ Levon Helm

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

~ Pras Michel

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.

~ Greg Lake

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

~ Lil Wayne

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

~ David Guetta

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

~ Erykah Badu

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

~ Amy Grant

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

~ Jack Black

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

~ Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

~ Ray Charles

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

~ George Thorogood

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

~ Steven Curtis Chapman

Any good music must be an innovation.

~ Les Baxter

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

~ Tom Wopat

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

~ Conway Twitty

You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

~ Jimi Westbrook

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

~ Jerry Goldsmith

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas