M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.”
“Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.”
“Music changes. Nothing stays the same. You just gotta be able to roll with the punches. When the music changes, it's not that you gotta change too - it's that you gotta be able to maintain and hold your ground.”
“Music chooses her musicians.”
“Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.”
“Music comes from a place we don't know.”
“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”
“Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.”
“Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.”
“Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.”
“Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.”
“Music communicates beyond words. Melody, rhythm, and harmony evoke emotions, memories, and connections that transcend language. Listening deeply allows the soul to experience what words cannot express.”
“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”
Source: This Is Your Brain on Music
“Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.”
“Music connected me with something outside myself, even if only for a moment. For that moment, it held my fears at bay and with each passing day, helped me climb up from the dark pit that had once seemed bottomless.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.”
“Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Music contains zero alcohol, yet it gets people high.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.”
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”
“Music conveys to us itself!”
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
“Music could have made her forget the present, for a moment, even if only by making her remember the past.”
Source: When the Music Stops
“Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.”
“Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.”
“Music creates order out of chaos.”
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”
Source: Theme and Variations
“Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.”
“Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.”
“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.”
“Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.”
“Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.”
“Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.”
“Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.”
“Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.”
“Music definitely inspires my design all the time.”
“Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.”
“Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.”
Source: Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series
“Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.”
“Music didn't really occur to me. Michael Jordan and Batman were my favorite two entities then. Michael Jackson was there, but I didn't really get into Bob Dylan, for instance, until I was in my 20s. The record I heard of his that got me interested in singing was Knocked Out Loaded, which is what many people consider to be his worst record.”
“Music differs from, say, travel. When you travel, you are trying to get somewhere. In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. And there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord… because that’s the end!”
“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”
“Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.”
“Music dissipates every misery.”
“Music dissipates mystery.”
“Music dissolves the straight and narrow.”
“Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we judge drugs. There's the ability to get a big audience because of these incredible, iconic, charismatic people. You can look at a number of issues - the challenge is to make sure you choose something that has all those issues. Popular music is like a mirror of culture, of who we are.”
“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.”
“Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."”