Music Quotes

Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

When we say 'Blackpink in your area,' we're literally saying we're in your area with good music, with good energy - we're here for you.

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.