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With the medium for music being sound, it is a subjective feeling whether it is actually music or noise! Music is passion for some, past time for the others and religion for a greater part of the population. Everyone has their own favourite genre and band of musicians and the age groups of listeners range from 0-100, literally! Music needs to have 5 properties: rhythm, pitch, interval and dynamics. For some soothing melodies, tune into the next section of the music quotes that are lined up for you!

Eddie Van Halen

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Nothing Living
Eddie Van Halen
Nora Fatehi

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

Dancing
Nora Fatehi
Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Love Nature Art
Jimmy Carter
River Phoenix

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

Money Acting
River Phoenix
Harry Styles

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

World
Harry Styles
Brittany Murphy

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

Acting
Brittany Murphy
Chris Cornell

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Entertainment
Chris Cornell
Ilaiyaraaja

My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

Religion
Ilaiyaraaja
Morgan Freeman

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

School
Morgan Freeman
Grimes

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Good Humanity
Grimes
Taika Waititi

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

Motivation
Taika Waititi
RM

Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.

RM

I lived in a small village outside the city and grew up in a large family, so my world was very much centred around that. I used to sing in the local church, and I would also occasionally sing in the local pubs for which I used to get a few bob. That, for me, was the start of my interest in music, which has obviously expanded since then.

Family World
Dolores O'Riordan
Camila Cabello

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.

Love
Camila Cabello
Awkwafina

I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music.

People Trying
Awkwafina
William Lyon Phelps

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

World Good Love
William Lyon Phelps
Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley
Bob Marley

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Good Pain
Bob Marley

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Daniel Radcliffe
Salma Hayek

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Love Art History
Salma Hayek
Michelle Williams

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

Michelle Williams

I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.

Radio
Zoe Kravitz

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

Age Power
John Legend
Lil Peep

Some days, I'll be very down and out, but you won't be able to tell, really, because I don't express that side of myself on social media. That's the side of myself that I express through music.

Social Media
Lil Peep
Ilaiyaraaja

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

People
Ilaiyaraaja
Amanda Seyfried

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Singing Soul
Amanda Seyfried
Sammy Hagar

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

Togetherness Writing
Sammy Hagar
Eric Clapton

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

Family Fear
Eric Clapton

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

World Hope
Marvin Gaye

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

Jack White
Stevie Wonder

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Stevie Wonder
Hank Williams

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

Hank Williams

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

Radio
Zac Hanson
Robert Browning

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Solitude
Robert Browning
Novak Djokovic

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Novak Djokovic
Adele

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Eyes
Adele

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Feelings
Rihanna

I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

Radio
Halsey
A. R. Rahman

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

Money Fathers
A. R. Rahman
Quentin Tarantino

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Movies
Quentin Tarantino
George Michael

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

God
George Michael

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

God
Brian Austin Green
Ilaiyaraaja

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

Ilaiyaraaja
Camila Cabello

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

Personality Style
Camila Cabello
Dustin Diamond

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.

Stars Trying
Dustin Diamond
Steve Nash

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Time Home
Steve Nash

One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.

Greatness Time
Dr. Dre
Richard Attenborough

I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi.' I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.

Richard Attenborough
Jamie Foxx

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Life Positivity
Jamie Foxx
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

World Knowledge
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ilaiyaraaja

To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels.

Ilaiyaraaja

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

Singing Soul
Amanda Seyfried
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
RM

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Language
RM

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

Life Time
Justin Timberlake
Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Silence
Aldous Huxley
Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Troubles
Eddie Van Halen
River Phoenix

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Creativity
River Phoenix

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Nothing
Ozzy Osbourne
Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Healing Power People
Elton John
Priyanka Chopra

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Love Time
Priyanka Chopra
A. R. Rahman

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

Quality Time
A. R. Rahman
David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

David Foster

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.

World
Riley Keough

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Sports
Lil Wayne
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Philosophy Wisdom
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ilaiyaraaja

Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.

World
Ilaiyaraaja

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

World
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Tory Lanez

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

Tory Lanez
Mel Brooks

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mathematics
Mel Brooks
William Wordsworth

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Humanity Youth Nature
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot
Linda Evans

I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.

Love
Linda Evans

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Eddie Van Halen
Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Birthday Guitar
Stevie Nicks
Juice Wrld

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

School
Juice Wrld
Robert Kardashian

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Movies
Robert Kardashian
Drake

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

Drake
Johnny Cash

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Death Love Hatred
Johnny Cash
Halsey

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

Decision
Halsey
Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Magic
Marilyn Manson
Alan Rickman

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Change World
Alan Rickman
Chris Cornell

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

Character
Chris Cornell
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Ilaiyaraaja

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

Power
Ilaiyaraaja
Sean Lennon

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Mind
Sean Lennon
John Cusack

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

John Cusack
Dolores O'Riordan

The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

Time Heart
Dolores O'Riordan
Bruno Mars

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Science
Bruno Mars
Martin Luther

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Art
Martin Luther
Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Cats Life
Albert Schweitzer
LeBron James

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

LeBron James
Eugene Levy

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

Eugene Levy
Travis Scott

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

Travis Scott

I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.

Love
Tom Ellis
Bruce Springsteen

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Best World
Bruce Springsteen
Donald Glover

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

Best World
Donald Glover
Dr. Dre

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

Sleep
Dr. Dre

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Jamie Foxx
George Michael

There are so many things and so many aspects to gay life that I've discovered and so many things to write about. I have a new life, and I have a new take on dance music because of that life.

Life Dancing
George Michael