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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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