Music Quotes

At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

~ Jennifer Paynter

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

~ Jennifer Paynter

When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.

~ Hermann Hesse

Piracy begins where creativity ends.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

~ François Truffaut

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

~ John Grooters

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

~ Ann Patchett

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.

~ Jessica Park

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

~ Ken Baumann

One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart, there, the veil will drop. The arc of the seas shall finally know the skies. Day and night shall end. The clock tower will crumble. Time shall fly to the place of no more. For we were born for meaning. We were born to love. There, we shall all be together with all the lovelies ever known who chose mercy and kindness amidst the forget-me-nots and the countless stars.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, Don't Worry, Be Happy. I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

~ Ellen Willis

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

~ Crystal Woods

I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race ahead in fury, plunging into the dense fog of black notes, pulling the music out by its roots, hurling it up out of the piano and into the air.

~ Tabitha Suzuma

Music move God, just as it does lucifer. Something they both have in common.

~ Niyigiraimbabazi Zacharia

Enjoy the music to understand it!

~ Toba Beta

I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have been of centuries or millenniums.

~ Nicholas Trandahl

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

~ Sarah Ruhl

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

~ Jessica Bell

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

~ Charles R. Cross

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

~ Nas

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.

~ Chris Stapleton

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

~ Tupac Shakur

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

~ Barry Diller

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

~ Blythe Danner

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

~ Rod Stewart

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

~ Nile Rodgers

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

~ Erykah Badu

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

~ Tom Petty

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

~ Tom Petty

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

~ Elvis Presley

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

~ P. T. Barnum

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

~ Noel Gallagher

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

~ Morrissey

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

~ Alton Brown

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

~ Jon Bon Jovi

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

~ Hilary Rosen