Music Quotes

Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy.”“That’s for sure,” agreed Rocky.“But if we didn’t make difficult choices, right or wrong,” said Mr. Veraldi, “we wouldn’t learn anything worth knowing. Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

~ Karen Mueller Coombs

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

~ David Mitchell

This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

~ Lauren Oliver

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

~ Marianne Faithfull

My mind is killing me”— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.

~ Simon Cheshire

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.

~ The Unknown

Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor!

~ Robin Benway

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

~ Robert Schumann

Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back to his room. He gazed at himself long and curiously. Who are you? What are you? Where do you belong? You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly. You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and vulgar, and unbeautiful. You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches. There are the stale vegetables now. Those potatoes are rotting. Smell them, damn you, smell them. And yet you dare to open the books, to listen to beautiful music, to learn to love beautiful paintings, to speak good English, to think thoughts that none of your own kind thinks, to tear yourself away from the oxen and the Lizzie Connollys and to love a pale spirit of a woman who is a million miles beyond you and who lives in the stars! Who are you? and what are you? damn you! And are you going to make good?

~ Jack London

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement.

~ Tiffany Madison

Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell them not to fear no more.I'm not saying right is wrong,It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way.Cos' everything that's been has past,The answers in the looking glass.There's four and twenty million doorsOn life's endless corridor,So say it loud and sing it proud today.

~ Noel Gallagher

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world, it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

~ E.m. Forster

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

~ John Fogerty

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

~ B.f. Skinner

Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process.

~ Dominic Owen Mallary

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.

~ Megan Lindholm

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.

~ Dana Reinhardt

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

~ Stan Getz

Music is love.

~ Yvonne Prinz

Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it. -attrib Frank Zappa

~ John Powell

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost

~ Greg Hamerton

When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.

~ Blake Lewis

The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had the process exactly backward. It was truth that lifted the language into beauty and toward song. It was a matter of doing what Joe Henry did, of pursuing characters into moments of emotional truth and slowing down. The result was a compression of sensual and psychological detail that released the rhythm and melody in language itself, what Longfellow called the happy accidents of language.

~ Steve Almond

want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey.

~ Blake Lewis

Society, you're a crazy breed.

~ Eddie Vedder

Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin'On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe's my virgin suicide

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

~ Nicki Minaj

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind with their pieties and their sense of 'community,' i.e. ram it home that you're one of THEM; or, alternately, deck and bake yourself into an image configuration so blatant or outrageous that you become a culture myth.

~ Lester Bangs

People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.

~ Felix Mendelssohn

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

~ James Hamilton-Paterson

I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.

~ Ziggy Marley

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

~ Mariah Carey

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

~ Kate Braverman

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make corrections matter-of-factly, with no feeling that a chid is a failure because she has made an error, but with ocnfidence that the feedback will help the child learn and be accurate the next time.

~ Peter Perret

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

~ Alexandra Chauran

Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the entire rhythm nation. Set the Dj up as the executive, the legislative, and judicial branches. I mean, after listening to your beat, anything I've heard on the pop radio in the last five years feels like a violation of my civil rights.

~ Paul Beatty

To grow a melody? You can't grow a melody on purpose,” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental.

~ Gregory Maguire