Music Quotes

“Music teaches us about lyricism in writing, a delicate turn of phrase, selectiveness with words, rhythmic passages. Most of all, music, like good writing, touches our emotions with cadences that slip in like a subtle visitor, familiar and known before.”
― Suzy Davies

“When dealing with music, the personal is the political, and always has been.”
― Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History

“Music ‘says’ things about the world, but in specifically musical terms. Any attempt to reproduce these musical statements ‘in our own words’ is necessarily doomed to failure.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something. That night, singing that, just reaffirmed that I wanted to put out an album of my own songs.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm. Artists are not released from that obligation, especially as there are no works of art which do neither harm nor good. If a book, a picture or a melody is accepted by a reader, a spectator or a listener, it means that the reader, spectator or listener has had his emotions stirred; and emotions must be either harmful or useful. They cannot be neutral.”
― Sergei Obraztsov, My Profession

“I had never considered what it would be like to be in love until I was in it.”
― Tegan Quin, High School

“I'm a musician, songwriter, creative and author.⁣⁣ Entrepreneurship is a medley of everything to create something.”
― Richie Norton

“It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.”
― David Berman

“It’s like I’ve always had a painted musical sound track playing background to my life. I can almost hear colors and smell images when music is played. Mom loves classical. Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from
her CD player all day long. Those pieces always seem to be bright blue as I listen, and they smell like fresh paint. Dad is partial to jazz, and every chance he gets, he winks at me, takes out Mom’s Mozart disc, then pops in a CD of Miles Davis or Woody Herman. Jazz to me sounds brown and tan, and it smells like wet dirt.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

“I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“A moment where heaven kisses earth and time is left to float away.”
― Jenim Dibie

“Lyrics is subjective! A good music touches the soul, frees up the space and miraculously fills it..”
― Mehnaz Ansari

“Hopefully, over the years of being best friends, Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours, to feel something, to burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“– Rock is dead, but pop will live forever. Addio, Mista.”
― Shohtaroh Miya, Le Bizzarre Avventure di JoJo - Golden Heart Golden Ring

“Music is like a light spring breeze. You feel it all over your skin, it caresses your face, it inspires you to new achievements and charges you with new life. It is airy and practically illusory, but your soul sings at its first rush.as I called it".”
― Elena Paolino, Valencia in Bloom

“Like I said, so what?’

‘I think you’d like Miles Davis.’ Sunglasses laughed at the joke. Tatum didn’t get it, but she felt they were toying with her like cats pulling strands from a ball of wool.

‘Never fucking heard of him. Like I said, so what?”
― Jim Lowe, New Reform

“A song with lyrics is all of it, don’t you think? Poetry plus all the wordless feelings in the music itself. Complex things, ideas are communicated without words. The instrumental part can make the spoken part ironic—like when the lyrics touch on love, but the accompaniment is loud and angry. I love that.”
― Penny Reid

“Don't believe the hype.”
― Alex Turner

“We'll fuck you up if you mess with TLC.”
― Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

“STRANGE BIRD; FAMILIAR WINGS!”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“GRATITUDE IS THE BEST WRITTEN VERSE OF THE SOUL!”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“MY PICTURES TODAY ARE BETTER THAN MY "BEST" PICTURES OF YESTERDAY!”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“Life is a mystery without a music.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Music dissipates mystery.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I've noticed one of the marks of a good piece - whether it be a book, film, #poem, song or other type of #story - is that you notice something new every time you revisit it.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

“Muusigu waa sida riyo-maalmeed micno dareen mug leh u sameeya nolosha daqiiqadaha aynu maqalkooda macaansanayno kaasoo ina muquuransiiya dhex mushaaxista mala'awaalka & musawirashada mustaqbalka maanta ka fiican.”
― Abdirahman Habane

“White Christmas' is the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' of Christmas songs.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Good music doesn't care what genre it is!”
― Eric Dahl, B.B. King's Lucille and the Loves Before Her

“Her moments were so lyrical, I hear music every time I write about her.”
― Nitya Prakash