Quotes about music
Welcome to our Music collection, a symphony of melodies, emotions, and the universal language that resonates within every heart. In this curated compilation of quotes, we explore the enchanting world of music, celebrating its power to inspire, heal, and create connections that transcend time and culture.
Music is more than sound; it's an emotional landscape that speaks to the soul. Our Music quotes honor the creativity of musicians, the transformative impact of rhythms and harmonies, and the ability of music to evoke emotions and memories that words often cannot.
Whether you're a dedicated music enthusiast, an artist seeking inspiration, or simply captivated by the melodies that color life's moments, these quotes offer insights into the profound influence and beauty of music.
Embark on a journey that explores the genres that shape cultures, the melodies that capture the essence of life, and the stories behind the notes. Discover the therapeutic power of music, the connections it forges between people, and the way it serves as a constant companion through the highs and lows of our existence.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistIf singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
Alicia Machado
— ActressI would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
Joyce Carol Oates
— Authorthe music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
Perry Como
— SingerThat I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorBeing a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
Tommy Smothers
— ComedianI heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
Jacques-Louis David
— Neoclassical Master & Political ArtistThe artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistI work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIn the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorIt didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterThere is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianDuring my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostKaraoke is the great equalizer.
Chadwick Boseman
— American actorI love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
Quinn Shephard
— American actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and film editorI love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love cinematic music. A lot of the time, I make playlists for my characters when I act. I also make playlists for the scripts that I write.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
Witney Carson
— American professional Latin ballroom dancer and choreographerA lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.
Ciara
— American singerMore than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanIt really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.
David Lanz
— Grammy-nominated pianist and composerAt the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostNo one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
Judy Collins
— American singer-songwriter and musicianI sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderMusic, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
Judith Hill
— American singer-songwriterI am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderIt's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.
Bobby McFerrin
— American folk-jazz vocalistI think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.
Julie Andrews
— English actress, singer, and authorI saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?
Al Green
— American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producerThe music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
Beyonce
— American singer, songwriter, and actressI know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.
Charli XCX
— English singer and songwriterA good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.
Kylie Minogue
— Australian singer and actressI love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Mary Lou Williams
— American jazz pianist, arranger, and composerMany people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
Aisling Bea
— Irish actor, stand-up comedian and writerUnfortunately, 'How You Remind Me' is the song most perfectly suited to my voice.
Adele
— English singer and songwriterMy worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.
Erykah Badu
— American singer-songwriter, record producer and actressI relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.
Michael Gungor
— American singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast hostThe whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
Heather Headley
— Trinidadian-born American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actressThe beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music--it's the new baby--and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.
James Fenton
— English poet, journalist and literary criticAn aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
Andre Benjamin
— American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and record producerHip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
Ednita Nazario
— Puerto Rican musician, singer, and composerThe Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of
David Crosby
— American singer-songwriter and musicianI love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.
A-Trak
— Canadian DJ, turntablist, record producer, and record label executiveThat was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
Alessia Cara
— Canadian singer-songwriterI love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.
Gianni Versace
— Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessmanThe first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
Frankie Laine
— American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned nearly 75 yearsWhen people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.
Adrienne Bailon
— American MusicianWhen I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I've been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don't jump the gun and throw anything out there.
Christian Dior
— French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SEHaute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThere is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistBut the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
Witney Carson
— American professional Latin ballroom dancer and choreographerIf I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it.
Ciara
— American singerReal music to me is real; it's what you feel.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanMichael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderA well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderI simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
Mary Lou Williams
— American jazz pianist, arranger, and composerQuite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Julie Andrews
— English actress, singer, and authorSadly I don't sing. I missed it for a long time, but my daughter Emma said something wonderful when I was feeling blue one day: "Mom, you've just found a different way of using your voice, and that's with your books." In a way, she's right. It's just a different way of expressing what I feel about music, individuality, art and all the things I've always loved.
Erykah Badu
— American singer-songwriter, record producer and actressIn music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
Michael Gungor
— American singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast hostI do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
David Crosby
— American singer-songwriter and musicianI think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.
A-Trak
— Canadian DJ, turntablist, record producer, and record label executiveMy ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.
Frankie Laine
— American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned nearly 75 yearsI fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.
Christian Dior
— French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SEFrom his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWho can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistThe greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.
Ciara
— American singerUsher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanTo me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.