909 private quotes tagged music

“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.” — George Harrison

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“Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.” — Chris Rock

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“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!” — Taylor Swift

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“Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.” — Ezra Pound

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“I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?” — Dave Grohl

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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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“Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!” — Taylor Swift

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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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“The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.” — Phillips Brooks

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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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“I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.” — April Winchell

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“Music fathoms the sky.” — Charles Baudelaire

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

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“I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.” — Jonathan Davis

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“I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.” — Manuel Puig

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“Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.” — Bill Hicks

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“I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.” — Lil Wayne

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“Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.” — Kenny Chesney

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“We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.” — Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?” — Ozzy Osbourne

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“I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.” — Kenny G

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“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.” — Ani DiFranco

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