909 private quotes tagged music

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”— Marcus Aurelius

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”— Ronald Reagan

“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.”— Patti Smith

“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.”— Salma Hayek

“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”— Quincy Jones

“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”— Jerry Garcia

“The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.”— Billy Corgan

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”— Walter Savage Landor

“It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.”— Tom Wopat

“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”— Taylor Swift

“It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.”— Tom Petty

“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.”— Nina Simone

“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.”— Erykah Badu

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”— Charlie Parker

“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”— Charles Baudelaire

“Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”— David Byrne

“There is still a future with music, because people want music.”— Maynard James Keenan

“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”— Thomas Merton

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”— Johann Sebastian Bach

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”— Bob Marley

“Any good music must be an innovation.”— Les Baxter

“Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.”— Neil Young

“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”— Ice Cube