Music Quotes

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that's been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.

When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Music is the soul of language.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.