M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.”
“Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.”
“Music to me is like a friend that comes in just when you need it.”
Source: The Life Impossible
“Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.”
“Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.”
“Music to me is something I did as a hobby.”
“Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.”
“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.”
“Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive”
“Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it now as a grown person), but as a little kid I used to think, "oh, you can just make up melodies and sometimes when you make certain melodies it makes you feel a certain way."”
“Music, to Paul McCartney, is Pleasure Island. And though he’s resident there, he never gets tired of frequenting it.”
“Music today is based on more contracts, rather than audience, talent and entertainment.”
“Music, too, offers a photograph of the world; characteristically, however, it does this not by copying a few figured sounds but rather by lifting all of the mixed images of extravagance, gushing overflow, and flaming fullness offered by life in its entirety from their immediate objects and weaving them into a carpet—a carpet with its own all-encompassing intensity, quality, and therefore reality.”
“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.”
Source: The Inheritance
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
“Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.”
“Music transcends the boundaries of language.”
Source: Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.”
“Music truly is the universal language.”
“MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Music turned him to butter.”
Source: Whiskey When We're Dry
“Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.”
“Music, unless you write it, is always vicarious. It's written by a composer in a particular manner with a particular style. It's somebody else's story, and even if you can relate to tor find yourself in it or hide yourself in it, it doesn't belong to you.”
Source: Everyone We've Been
“Music unlocks the deepest oppression and brings to light the joy of our heart's greatest memories.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations
“Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.”
“Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.”
“Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.”
“Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.”
“Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.”
“Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing”
“Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.”
“Music videos are so incredibly relevant, but I don't think they're relevant on broadcast television anymore. I think they're much more about the power of the Internet. The stakes in advertising is a very different game. There's a lot of money involved and a lot of pressure. I miss the freedom and the rock-'n'-roll spirit of doing music videos”
“Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.”
“Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.”
“Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.”
“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”
“Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.”
“Music was already more than music. It was a door that opened for three minutes. Sometimes way longer. In the forbidden world there was no judgment. Only your own thoughts and secret desires, slashing through the atmosphere. And when the song was over, the door clanged shut again. There was no choice but to scramble back to the beginning. Sometimes I would listen to one song twenty or thirty times in a row. There had to be other people like me. I just hadn't met them yet.”
Source: The Uncool
“Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.”
“Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.”
“Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.”
Source: Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater
“Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.”
Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage
“Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.”
“Music was important. Football was the easy part.”
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
Source: Clea
“Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.”
“Music was known and understood before words were spoken.”
“Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.”
“Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.”
Source: Drop City
“Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.”