I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.
Willa FordApplause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred JarryThere is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John KeatsCan you see me being like Steps? I don't think so. My music is much more mature and more meaningful.
CapriceI love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude DebussyIf I'm playing my own music I'll pick out the chords and become distracted, as hard as that is to believe!
Justin TimberlakeMy music can be very expressive and contain deep emotion, but often I just write for fun and see what comes out; the majority of songs you write never see the light of day.
Art GarfunkelFilm music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky'I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.'
Eric CantonaMy skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
Will SmithIt wasn't about the music [on giving up her pop career]
Holly ValanceMusic is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul RichterGetting into the music scene and getting involved with it in London at the time that I did, that was interesting!
Dan HawkinsI like any reaction I can get with my music.
Jim MorrisonMusic is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Lester BowieWhen you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
Mickey HartExtraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel CowardLove the music in yourself, not yourself in the music.
Jon Peter LewisA film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley KubrickI also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
Coco LeeWhen I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela FleckMusic is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick ClarkNature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary WebbThe music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Gilbert ParkerCharacter is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending notes of music which constitute the man.
John MacDuffImprovising musicians are capable of being musical travellers, voyagers.
Gary BurtonNothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill CosbyNo, my music career is not over! I am just exploring my options [on trying her hand at TV presenting]
Kelly OsbourneI wanted to be very serious about being a musician - a guy who cares a lot about the music and the band and why we did it in the first place
Jason LeeI have a great range yet I never get offered any musicals.
Sharon Stone'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben JonsonHe that lives in hope dances without music.
George HerbertIt's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
TyreseIt is interesting to try to spot what is going on in society at large by looking at what musicians are creating.
Kirk HammettTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell HolmesA painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold StokowskiThe wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke EllingtonFor me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula ColePerformers who discourse strong political opinions often seem aghast that some people respond negatively to them: in the form of not attending their performances, or not buying their music, or opposing their speaking at other entertainment venues.
Lester Dent'Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.'
Eddie IzzardI think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
Julian CopeI wouldn't like to have to choose between Brian Wilson and Phil Spector. Especially the earily Brian Wilson stuff. [On which was the best music]
Dave EdmundsPeople have always focused on the bits of my personality that are a bit wild and crazy, but it is important for people to know I am as serious about my music as anyone.
BjorkIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous HuxleyOne good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.
Bob MarleyI was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan GreenspanThe day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard FergusonThe music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Richard BransonI love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
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