3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
3 December 2020 Diane Kruger I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
3 December 2020 Hector Berlioz Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
3 December 2020 Grace Slick Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
3 December 2020 Kristin Hersh Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
3 December 2020 Tomas Luis de Victoria Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.
3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman As a boy, I’d always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn’t what one did for a living. I got over that.
3 December 2020 Conrad Aiken Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
3 December 2020 Frank Sinatra The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
