Music Speaks Quotes

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up. ~ Drake Bell

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. ~ Carlos Santana

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life. ~ Zach Condon

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages. ~ Itzhak Perlman

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity. ~ Pam Brown

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful. ~ Luke James

The music speaks for itself, there's no need to say anything ~ Paulo Coelho

Sharing music is personal because music speaks, it feels, it breathes. And it always says something about you. ~ C.G. Drews

Music" - he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger - "music speaks for the soul because words are too small. ~ Dennis Lehane

The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God. ~ Mstislav Rostropovich

When words fail music speaks. ~ Irena Huang

The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. ~ Charles Manson

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~ John A. Logan

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not. ~ Bun E. Carlos

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't. ~ Tim McIlrath

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. ~ Unknown Author 429

I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid. ~ Bradford Cox

What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's cell
And if you're one of them then you're one of me
And you would do almost anything just to feel free...- From the song Fake You Out ~ Twenty One Pilots

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?' ~ Martha Plimpton

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something. ~ Glenn Branca

The music industry is very small. ~ Rita Ora

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. ~ Walter Savage Landor

action speaks louder than word but if someone judged you by your picture that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of "for art sakes ~ Jayson Zabate

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair. ~ Joss Stone

She sipped from her bottle. "Okay. Truth or dare."
"Dare."
Okay, she hadn't expected that. She'd been prepared to ask some lame question that she probably already knew the answer to. Now she had to think of a dare.
The driving pulse of music gave her an idea.
"Dance with me," she blurted.
He lifted his eyebrows. "That's your dare?"
"Not challenging enough?"
He shook his head. "Not nearly."
"You haven't seen me dance. ~ Emma Jay

The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love ~ David O. Russell

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. ~ Carson Daly

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion. ~ Clive Davis

Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art?
'Literature, he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors require elaborate supplies and tools. Dancers must have music. Musicians must have instruments. Literature needs nothing but a voice to speak it or sand to scrawl it in. ~ Tiffany Reisz

If you are alone & start loving Music, it means you are in with yourself. ~ Abhishek Rai

Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily. ~ Nachman Of Breslov

Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime. ~ Kathleen Long

There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you're going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that's the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That's one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there's a very strange emotional reach. For me - more than books or movies or other things - music is like a mainline to your heart. ~ Matt Berninger

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. ~ J.K. Rowling

It was august. for years it was august ... . there was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once. ~ Paula McLain

If it's music related, then its heavenly related. ~ DON SANTO

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer! ~ Rumi

I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music. ~ Charli XCX

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to. ~ Joanna Newsom

My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! ~ Grey DeLisle

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. ~ Umberto Boccioni

I'm a producer/rapper, so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music, and I'm good at it. ~ Juicy J

His door opened, and Michael filled the doorway.
Gabriel yanked the headphones out of his ears, but music still poured out against his comforter. "Ever hear of knocking?"
He wanted his voice to be sharp, but he couldn't generate the usual anger.
He's not worthless. And you're out of line.
"I did knock," said Michael. "Three times. ~ Brigid Kemmerer

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present. ~ Harry Partch

Night and day waging war, bitter enemies evermore.
Fierce and loyal, the day is strong.
Broken oaths, so much goes wrong.
Magic speaks to all hearts bound.
Trapped in slumber until she's found.
When two are joined the spell will break.
One by one their souls awake.
Hate takes over, vengeance sworn.
And from the flames new life is born. ~ Stacie Simpson

You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch. ~ Iggy Pop

you really have love at home then why are you in a place where the music is too loud and men can't see you beyond an erection? If you are truly fulfilled then why are you half drunk and ready to let a random man stick his cock in you? If there is truly happiness in the club then why isn't there happiness in the music or the people and why is shit always popping off? The club is the loneliest place on Earth and I've only pretended to be a fan ~ LOVE VINCENT

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. ~ Tom Stoppard

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion. ~ Erykah Badu

Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should. ~ Larry Osborne

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music. ~ Mary J. Blige

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. ~ Jon Secada

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music. ~ Alex Gonzaga

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. ~ Yolanda Adams

A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records. ~ John Lennon

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. ~ Joseph Jarman

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it. ~ Joe Budden

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life. ~ Sarah McLachlan

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom ~ Hayley Williams