909 private quotes tagged music

“I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.” — Keith Richards

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“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.” — Joseph Addison

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“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.” — Robert Plant

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“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.” — Stendhal

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“I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.” — Steve Martin

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“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.” — David Bowie

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“Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.” — George Santayana

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“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.” — Joseph Addison

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“Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.” — Meat Loaf

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“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.” — William Wordsworth

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“Metal is still the biggest music now in America.” — Sebastian Bach

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“Music is essentially useless, as is life.” — George Santayana

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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.” — Ronnie James Dio

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“I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.” — Steve Martin

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“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.” — Louis Armstrong

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“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?” — Billy Joel

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“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” — Leonard Bernstein

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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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