Quotes about Music
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
- George Eliot
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
- Malala Yousafzai
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
- Fred Hammond
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
- Jay-Z
If you join a choir, it's a wonderful outlet.
- Judith Durham
I want to put out music I really believe in, and when I felt that was threatened, I lashed out at everybody.
- James Arthur
I think music will thrive where it wants to.
- Rita Ora
I have tattooed on my hand the silver throwback mics from back in the day. My father used to have one of those when he'd lead people at the YMCA doing the cha-cha slide.
- Enzo Amore
Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
- Amy Grant
The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.
- Jennifer Lopez
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
- Britney Spears