Great Music Quotes

Great Music Quote of the day

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

Put out great music, and that's that

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

Great music is great music, period.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.