160 Different Music Quotes

Following is our list of different music quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about only music.

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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. — Freddie Mercury

Music can change the world. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music can change the world. — Ludwig van Beethoven

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. — Duke Ellington

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him. — Louis Armstrong

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. - Billy Sheehan

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. — Billy Sheehan

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. - Stevie Wonder

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. — Stevie Wonder

Music gives color to the air of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions — A. R. Rahman

Music is a defining element of character. — Plato

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. — Chuck Berry

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss

Music is my religion. — Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. - Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix

Short Different Music Quotes

  • Music gives a soul to the universe. — Plato
  • Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. — Cecilia Bartoli
  • Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. — Gabriel Marcel
  • Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do. — Lee “Scratch” Perry
  • A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. — Art Blakey
  • Music is the medicine of the mind. — John A. Logan
  • Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. — Karl Lagerfeld
  • A life without music is an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music should always be an adventure. — Coleman Hawkins
  • Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. — Plato

Top 10 Different Music Quotes

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one. — Duane Allman

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw

This is Manchester, we do things differently here. - Tony Wilson

This is Manchester, we do things differently here. — Tony Wilson

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. — Bobby Vinton

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful. — Tommy Emmanuel

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. — Abdu'l-Bahá

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything. — Martin Garrix

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. — Kurt Weill

Different Music Image Quotes

Different music quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

What Is Music Quotes

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. — Jerry Garcia

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. — Chris Cornell

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. — Ludwig van Beethoven

Different music quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being. — John Coltrane

The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal! — Keith Green

Different music quote Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform. — Synyster Gates

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about. — Christina Grimmie

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever. — Bob Marley

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played. — Zayn Malik

Only Music Quotes

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally. — Kevin Gates

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author

Different music quote 10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.
10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. — Jimi Hendrix

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands. — George Harrison

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Different music quote Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. — Merle Haggard

Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world. — Chance the Rapper

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness. — John Muir

Different Kinds Of Music Quotes

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music. — Roger Andrew Taylor

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music. — Roger Taylor

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want. — George Gershwin

Different music quote Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you  have made. If you want a different result,
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. — Howard Gardner

When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on. — Mark Stoermer

I really like the challenge of working with different kinds of music. I feel like my role is really like a coach, so I feel like I can do my job for different kinds of music that may not necessarily be what I listen to. — Rick Rubin

Different music quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time. — T-Pain

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not. — Steve Vai

It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City. — Emmylou Harris

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop. — Itzhak Perlman

Different Types Of Music Quotes

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane. — Meek Mill

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all. — Travis Barker

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping. — Charlotte Church

Different music quote No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. — Serj Tankian

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977. — Mark Knopfler

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music. — Rico Love

Different music quote They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.
They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing. — Sky Ferreira

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play. — Junior Kimbrough

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music. — Elvis Costello

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist. — Killer Mike

Different Genres Of Music Quotes

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. — Kid Rock

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres. — Avicii

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story. — Bella Thorne

Different music quote How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.
How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.

I have a song entitled "Just Ain't My Day" that is a straight country song almost. My vocals are very soulful it's a different kind of record but people's response to it is beyond powerful. Proving that good music is good music regardless of the genre. — K.Michelle

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive. — Luis Miguel

There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres. — Jimmy Page

Different music quote Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music. — Rahki

I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into and people don't realize that I'm really good at those things. They just know me as Tony Sunshine, the guy that sang the hooks for Terror Squad. — Tony Sunshine

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres. — Chris Baio

Different Genres Quotes

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema. — Priyanka Chopra

I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl. — Gal Gadot

Rap is the number one most influential thing, it's the only genre that really strikes a chord. When you sing, you feel a certain way and it makes you feel good, but when you rap, it just strikes a chord a whole different way. — Tyga

I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can. — Dennis Quaid

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things. — Diplo

I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing. — Viola Davis

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period. — Freddie Gibbs

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre. — Grant Gustin

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. — Keanu Reeves

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look. — Bruce Boxleitner

Variety Of Music Quotes

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. — Tipper Gore

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance. — Carl Maria von Weber

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers. — Neil Tennant

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present. — Harry Partch

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better. — Lou Doillon

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music. — Tom Cochrane

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. — John Shelton Reed

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker

Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music! — Jason Graves

Genres Of Music Quotes

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow. - Bootsy Collins

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow. — Bootsy Collins

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. — Robin Gibb

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us. — Phil Anselmo

As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician. — Sizzla

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. — Keith Urban

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres. — Mika

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. — Carrie Brownstein

I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited. — Taylor Swift

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

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More Different Music Quotes

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said. — Pina Bausch

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul. — Willie Nelson

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. — Eddie Vedder

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages. — A. R. Rahman

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. — Gerard Way

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. — Cam Newton

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it. — Rihanna

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony. — Amy Winehouse

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different. — Arthur Rubinstein

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together. — Marcus Miller

Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before. — James Newton Howard

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song. — Deborah Cox

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. — Neil Diamond

You can't really take a vinyl record player on a plane so you're not going to have the same experience, but if you walk yourself away and allow yourself to experience these different moments with music, you're so much richer in experience for that. That's what I believe. — Brendon Urie

Music is still the one thing that ties people together. People can come together from all different religions, walks of life, colours, creeds and enjoy the same song. That's still the most incredible thing to me about performing live. — Dave Gahan

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say. — Tim McGraw

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one. — Iannis Xenakis

I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression. — Reggie Watts

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. — Daisy Berkowitz

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. — Scott Putesky

It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody. — Tommy Ramone

Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening. — Joanne Lipman

The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen. — Aphex Twin

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. — Ornette Coleman

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity. — Quincy Jones

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different. — Bill Austin

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles. — Aloe Blacc

Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. — L.A. Reid

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. — Orhan Pamuk

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