If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.William Shakespeare
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.Dexter Holland
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.Frank Zappa
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.Erwin Schrödinger
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.Plato
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.Albert Einstein
I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.Louis Armstrong
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.Elizabeth Flock
The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.Ry Cooder
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.Luciano Pavarotti
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.Jonny Greenwood
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.Tom Jones
My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.Lewis Capaldi
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.Al Jarreau
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.Parker Posey
Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.Stella McCartney
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.D'Angelo
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.Evelyn Glennie
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.Ronnie Dunn
We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.Ben Lovett
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.Jon Batiste
I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.John Coltrane
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.David Bowie
I always had the dedication and passion towards music and it's always has been my motivation to make music.Jackson Wang