Quotes with music

Quotes 121 till 140 of 620.

  • Sir Thomas Beecham Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Calvin Harris Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Billy Joel 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
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bruno Mars Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • William Wordsworth Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Benny Blanco Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Anne Dudley I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Arthur Sullivan I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
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  • Burning Spear I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Allen Tate I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Busta Rhymes I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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