Music Quotes

Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

~ Sarah Dessen

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

~ Nina Lacour

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

~ Lady Gaga

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else? they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you. And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest. So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.

~ Tom Waits

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

~ Woody Allen

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

~ Paul Mccartney

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

~ John Barrowman

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

~ Frank Zappa

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

~ Morrissey

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

~ Morrissey

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

~ Alex Gaskarth

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

~ Morrissey

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

~ Nick Cave

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I am human and I need to be loved,just like everybody else does.

~ Morrissey

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets...

~ Joss Whedon

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

~ Morrissey

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

~ Victor Borge

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

~ Terry Pratchett

I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson,I never left an impression on anyone.

~ Morrissey

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

~ Morrissey

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

~ John Green

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.It only hurts because it's true.

~ Morrissey

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

~ Keith Richards

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind

~ Maria Cristina Mena

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Philosophy is the highest music.

~ Plato

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

~ Bob Dylan

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

~ Plato

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world, it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

~ Noah Levine

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

~ Noah Levine

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

~ Noah Levine

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

~ Noah Levine

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

~ Aaron Copland

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

~ Aristotle

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

~ Hermann Hesse

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

~ John Stuart Mill

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel