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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J Lippmann

I 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 Lee

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

A woman scorned is an old theme in country music. I think what's changed are the values from which the music reflects real life.
Steven Curtis Chapman

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

For me, music and life are all about style.
Miles Davis

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music than straight clubs, in my experience!
Jack Davenport

I love being a DJ, it's the closest I can ever get to being a musician. I can pretend that I wrote the songs and that everyone loves me, just for a minute!
Alex Zane

My music is what expresses me best, listen to that and not the words that I say during interviews!
Dizzy Gillespie

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony Davis

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Alyssa Milano

I signed up for being in Sugababes at the age of 13 and have spent my entire life devoted to making and performing music.
Mutya Sugababe

My 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 Smith

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

Music 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 Bowie

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

On pop music today: It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Bono

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Landor

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
Robert Coleman

Music is love in search of a word
Sidney Lanier

I didn't take music seriously until I heard my first good piece of music. [which is fair enough... if it's not good music then why take it seriously Alan!]
Alan Hovhaness

'Until I realised that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.'
Bruce Springsteen

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's... the musical channel phenomenon has been exported successfully all over the world.
Doug Ferrari

I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.
Mandy Moore

As Eric Dolphy said "Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone". And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.
John Abercrombie

Jazz is for everybody. The bottom line is that we believe jazz is really good music and deserves to be presented in the right way
James Morrison

It was music to the ears and the eyes! To be on the grid just minutes before the race starts, to see those polished cars and the guys get ready - and then hear the noise as they start their engines...
Victoria Beckham

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack Black

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger

I can't re-define music every week!
Arthur Baker

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
John Frusciante

I'm glad I started [out in music] so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
Debbie Gibson

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song
Louis Armstrong

Music is so important to so many people, and it has been of importance for humands for a long time.
Mary Hansen

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorise the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
Bryn Terfel

I'm bored with music between 1955 and 1980. I'm completely bored. I can't listen to a rock and roll record. I can't do it. I would rather listen to hogs screwing.
Sting

It has a lot of sentimental value and I would love to keep it after the run is over [on her nun's habit she wears in the sound of music]
Connie Fisher

It's [music] a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
Cecilia Bartoli

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein

It's so important that in my music I convey positive messages, and this song is definitely a universal message that everybody can relate to - anyone that's been discriminated against or unaccepted, unappreciated or disrespected just because of who you are,' Aguilera said in her acceptance speech. 'It was so important to me that I support the gay community in this sense. It's so sad that still in 2003 we even have to give awards like this. And that's why I'm here to show my love and support to all of you. [GLAAD Acceptance Speech 2003]
Christina Aguilera

If I could have done things differently with our music or how we wrote and became who we were, we wouldn't have been who we are now.
Isaac Hanson

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music.
Jon Peter Lewis

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties.
Eric Hoffer

Take 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 Holmes

I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.
Leeann Tweeden



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