Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
There’s been times when I’ve been standing in a line at a movie and someone’s hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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.
My love for dance music started when I was a child. Some of my earliest memories are hearing Trance music in the charts and later being heavily influenced by the eclectic tastes of my big brother, he quickly turned me into an avid Drum ‘n’ Bass head even though I was too young to rave.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.
Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.
There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.
Music was important. Football was the easy part.
Music is the soul of language.
You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Listen to realness in my music before you judge me.
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that’s fine with me as long as it doesn’t bother them that they’re not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
Music was never just a hobby for me. I’d pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
Any good music must be an innovation.
I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
We all love musical architecture; there’s no doubt about that.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
If a guy’s got it, let him give it. I’m selling music, not prejudice.
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.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Music is in my DNA!
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
Long intros are cool because there’s a little bit of anticipation, you know?
I’m thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We’ll call it something like ‘Two Music Boys.’
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world.
When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
In conclusion, music quotes remind us of the profound impact and beauty of this universal language. They inspire us to embrace the melodies that resonate within us, celebrate the power of music to touch our souls, and recognize the transformative influence it has on our lives. Let these quotes inspire you to immerse yourself in the world of music, express your emotions through its harmonies, and find solace, joy, and inspiration in its enchanting melodies.
