Quotes about Music
I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.
— Matt Redman
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
— Maya Angelou
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
— Jon Gordon
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
— Kesha
Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
— Lady Gaga
We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
— John Eldredge
God's signature is not just in the cell, it's in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.
— Frank Turek
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
— Frederick Douglass
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
— Phillips Brooks
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
— Kamasi Washington
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
— Duke Ellington