Music Quotes

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

~ Barry White

From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

~ Lara Pulver

When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'

~ Ledisi

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

~ Liu Wen

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

~ Jerry Lee Lewis

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

~ Joan Armatrading

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

~ Conor Oberst

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

~ Billy Idol

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

~ R. Kelly

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

~ Robert Gottlieb

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

~ Nick Cave

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

~ Rachel Kushner

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.

~ Mike D

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

~ Mandy Moore

I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

~ Hansika Motwani

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

~ Havelock Ellis

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

~ James Mercer

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

~ Carly Rae Jepsen

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

~ Andrew Bird

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.

~ Glenn Gould

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

~ Josephine De La Baume

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

~ Josephine De La Baume

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

~ Yoko Ono

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

~ Leonard Slatkin

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

~ Barbara Lynn

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

~ Kris Kristofferson

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

~ Condoleezza Rice

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

~ Zubin Mehta

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

~ James Taylor

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

~ Ani Difranco

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

~ Andre Rieu

It'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 Morissette

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

~ Bo Burnham

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

~ Nikki Giovanni

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

~ Edward Hirsch

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

~ Joshua Logan

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

~ Mark Knopfler

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

~ Jenny Lewis

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

~ William Blake