M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Music is an incitement to love.”
“Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.”
“Music is an indirect force for change”
“Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.”
“Music is an invisible being which is able to create a visible happiness!”
“Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.”
“Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.”
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
“Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.”
“Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.”
“Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It’s truth in an otherwise dishonest world.”
Source: Timeless: A Novel
“Music is another planet.”
Source: The Works of Alphonse Daudet
“Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
Source: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
“Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.”
“Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.”
“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”
“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”
“Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.”
“Music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is, indeed as the Ideas are, the multiplied phenomenon of which constitutes the world of individual things. Therefore music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. For this reason the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the thing itself.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.”
Source: The Power In Praising God
“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.”
“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.”
“Music is awaken of soul.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.”
“Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.”
“Music is breath of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.”
Source: Words & Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City
“Music is catharsis for me.”
“Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.”
“Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.”
“Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?”
Source: Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.”
“Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”
Source: Great Jones Street
“Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.”
“Music is defining time with emotions, with notes.”
Source: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - I. Overture Sheet Music
“Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.”
“Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.”
Source: The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
“Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.”
“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
“Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.”
“Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.”
“Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.”
“Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.”
“Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
“Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.”
“Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!”
“Music is entertainment, but I would like to be able to inspire the audience in a way that makes them leave, saying, "Wow, I just left with something I didn't have before going into this concert." I hope that people can leave either a live show or listening to our band record with a sense of peace, where the music was a moment of escape.”
“Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.”
“Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.”