Life Quotes

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

~ Prince

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

~ James Joseph Sylvester

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

~ Brian Austin Green

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

~ Frederick Reines

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

~ Ray Charles

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

~ Jack White

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

~ Frank Black

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'

~ Doris Day

My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

~ Afrojack

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

~ Peter Tork

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

~ Faith Hill

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

~ James Hetfield

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

~ Jeff Buckley

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

~ Enya

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

~ Gabriel Marcel

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

~ Herbie Hancock

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

~ Amy Grant

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

~ Scott Weiland

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

~ James Dyson

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

~ Josh Klinghoffer

Develop 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 Miller

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

~ Dick Clark

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

~ Jim Davis

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

~ Arthur Rubinstein

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

~ Jimi Hendrix

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.

~ Tito Jackson

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

~ Gunther Schuller

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

~ Winona Ryder

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

~ Björk

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

~ Alison Krauss

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

~ Mariah Carey

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

~ David Amram

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

~ Alexander Skarsgard

When we separate music from life we get art.

~ John Cage

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

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

~ Chris Barber

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

~ Leo Howard

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

~ Henry Ford

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

~ Sharron Angle