Music Quotes

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia

Beautiful, Giving, Study

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan

Great, Sadness, Place

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals

Beautiful, Heart, Tell

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan

Changes, Changing

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone

Growing, Songs, Listening

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann

Down, Guy, Sounds

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
Buddy Guy

Smile, Happy, Why

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Paulina Rubio

Power, Girl, Inspired

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett

Profound, Magical, Realised

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
David Coverdale

Relatives, Songs, Brothers

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe

Before, Sometimes, Few

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Bobby Vinton

Romantic, Rock, Used

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford

Art, Everything, Young

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Martin Mull

Writing, Dancing

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Needs, Audience

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu

Teacher, Important, Self

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

Him, Find, Walk

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright

Power, Song, Production

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
Tom Wopat

Good, Amazing, Voice

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

Him, Different, Away

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

War, Brain, Him

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

Fool, Facts, Maybe

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Start, Song

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

Prayer, Sexual, Embrace

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Himself, Nor

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