Top 77 Great Music Quotes

I’ve always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy – I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he’s very talented and he did make some great music.

Part of the passion for me was hearing great music from the very start of it, now I’m one of the people who can give that passion back to somebody.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don’t let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn’t define them.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

We’re a microcosm of America and are blessed to live in a country that’s so diverse. While it’s great for people to see that we can love and respect each other and work together, despite our differences, at the end of the day, we just want to make great music.

When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the ’60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever… Jimi Hendrix.

You’re in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I’ve been going through all those type of things.

We’re 2NE1, and we’re from Korea. We’re this girl band with great music.

Great music is great music. It doesn’t matter what genre it belongs.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can’t have both.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.

A great song is a great song, whether it’s on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

I just want to make great music. There’s not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.

I’ve always found Dallas to be an eclectic place with great food and great music, and I love the sense of community there.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn’t created because of some stupid grudge. That’s a shame.

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music – no matter if it’s hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it’s rock n’ roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it’s a smash, then I’ll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That’s what I’m a fan of – great music.

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.

My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn’t there, people tend not to write great music.

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn’t about a clever marketing trick.

I don’t feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It’s great music.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it’s played by a virtuoso player, doesn’t mean it’s great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Great music is just very clear. Sonically and lyrically, you understand the point of view, you understand the melodies, you understand the vibe, and you understand the lyric pretty damn quickly. To me, that doesn’t make it ‘less than’ – it makes it ‘more than.’

Australia is so cool that it’s hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.

I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.

I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was on the radio in Michigan. There was a lot of Steely Dan; just a lot of great music inspired me.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives’ guy. He didn’t try to be what he wasn’t. He just did what he did – made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I’m not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It’s just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It’s great music to dance to and just love.

The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

I’m playing great music with great people and so there’s no reason to stop.

I’d say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people’s bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

I was raised listening to so many wonderful females with great music.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

Really I’ve just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

The reason I love Lollapalooza is because it’s a great music festival.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You’re going to make great music.

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.

It’s a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there’s great music coming out of every wall.

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn’t continue making records and touring, but it’s hard to argue with 10 good years.

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

I’m pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix.