909 private quotes tagged music

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

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“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.” — Cameron Crowe

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“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” — Pythagoras

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“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.” — Justin Bieber

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“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” — Noel Coward

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“The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.” — Neil Young

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“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.” — Paul McCartney

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

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“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.” — Paul McCartney

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“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.” — Robert Plant

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“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.” — Taylor Swift

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“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.” — David Bowie

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“When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.” — Dave Grohl

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“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.” — Clint Eastwood

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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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“I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” — William Wordsworth

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“I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.” — David Bowie

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“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.” — Layne Staley

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“I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.” — Lil Wayne

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“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.” — Tom Stoppard

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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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