Quotes about Music

Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

We, as Christians, have a legacy to leave, and it's all about a love of Christ to permeate the music and reach the hearts of all of the people out there, that don't know him and do know him.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

Early in the afternoon she placed Schumann's concerto in A minor on the desk of the pianoforte, arranged her seat before it, and left the room.

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?

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?'

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.