M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.”
“Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.”
“Music was my first love and companion.”
“music was my first love
but it won't be my last”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.”
“Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.”
“Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
“Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.”
“Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.”
“Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.”
“Music was never a noun for you, it was always a verb. The only verb. You music-ed through the days and nights of your life.”
Source: When the World Tips Over
“Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.”
“Music was no longer my friend but I left my headphones on round the clock just to keep the outside noise out of my head.”
Source: Devil in a Coma
“Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.”
“Music was not always my fan. Sometimes there were lean years, years where I was uncertain if I was doing the right or wrong thing. And years where there wasn't the acceptance, years of economic hardships, and failures. That's when you get to know either who you are, what you're made of, or what's inside of you. If you don't probe deeper, you'll never know, and you can't go on.”
“Music was not invented by the composer, but found.”
“Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation. One side was sound, the other movement. The dancer's job was to make them equal.”
Source: The Sum of All Kisses
“Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!”
“Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.”
“Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.”
“Music was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else.”
“Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.”
“Music was the color of time, that's what it was. Time's color. Pink mornings, blue nights, golden afternoons.”
Source: Boy, Falling
“Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.”
“Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.”
“Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.”
“music was the only beautiful thing he owned”
Source: The Serpent King
“Music was the only other thing that was layered like that, so much that each new component changed the meaning of the whole. And so much building up and holding back-promising and withholding, and withholding, and withholding. You’re going to die without it. You’re never going to get it. You’re going to die. Here it is.”
Source: Either/or
“Music was the voice I didn't have.”
“Music was what bothered me, what interested me.”
“Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.”
“Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.”
“Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.”
“Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.”
“Music waves eternal wands,--
Enchantress of the souls of mortals!”
Source: The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems
“Music went far beyond being a meaningful influence during those teenage years. It provided a forum for a young person to express themselves through their choice of artists and the messages and narratives presented in those songs. Music was a way to connect with other teens, a universal key to unlock the doors of friendship.”
Source: Lanark County Comfort
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
“Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.”
“Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.”
“Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.”
“Music will always be apart of my life, I have been given a gift of song and voice and I have to use it. I don't have a mapped out time when I should hang up my mic because what I may think is my time may very well be a time to continue.”
“Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.”
“Music will always be my greatest passion.”
“Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.”
“Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.”
Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“Music will change how you think about society.”