Music Quotes

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

Music will save the world.

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.