Music Quotes

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to something deeper. These quotes explore rhythm, melody, performance, and the mysterious way that organized sound can make you cry, dance, or remember something you thought you had forgotten.

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”

Henry Ward Beecher

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“Rock music is niche.”

Bono

“Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.”

Brian Eno

“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”

Maynard James Keenan

“Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.”

Bruce Springsteen

“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.”

Harry Connick, Jr.

“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”

Brian Eno

“I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!”

Katherine Jenkins

“Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.”

Avril Lavigne

“I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.”

Lauryn Hill

“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.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.”

John Mayer

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

Groucho Marx

“I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&ampB.”

Willie Nelson

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