Music Quotes

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

~ Lady Gaga

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.

~ E.y. Harburg

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

~ Lady Gaga

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

~ Dmitri Shostakovich

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

~ Orson Scott Card

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

~ Rob Sheffield

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

~ Alanis Morissette

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.

~ William Shakespeare

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

~ Jodi Picoult

I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Every life has a sound

~ Jodi Picoult

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

~ Keith Richards

She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

~ Jennifer Egan

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

~ Billy Wilder

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

~ Chuck Klosterman

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

~ Boris Vian

Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?

~ Isaac Marion

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules.

~ Nick Hornby

Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

~ J.k. Rowling

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

~ Igor Stravinsky

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

~ Jay-Z

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

~ Lady Gaga

Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.

~ Jack Johnson

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

~ Kanye West

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

~ Eric Clapton

This machine kills fascists.

~ Woody Guthrie

Give me love like her'Cause lately I've been waking up alonePaint splattered teardrops on my shirtTold you I'd let you goAnd that I'll fight my cornerMaybe tonight I'll call youAfter my blood turns into alcoholNo I just wanna hold youGive a little time to me or burn this outWe'll play hide and seek to turn this aroundAll I want is the taste that your lips allowMy, my, my, my oh give me love

~ Ed Sheeran

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

~ Lady Gaga

Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.

~ Paolo Maurensig

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before.

~ Leonard Bernstein

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

We throw stones though we live in glass houses,We talk shit like its a cross to bare.You're only relevant 'til you get older.Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer

~ Alex Gaskarth

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche