Music Quotes (4067)
Quotes and citations about music
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
By : Alan Price
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
By : Lisa Marie Presley
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
By : Lisa Marie Presley
I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
By : Lisa Marie Presley
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
By : Elvis Presley
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
By : Elvis Presley
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
By : Jack Prelutsky
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
By : Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
By : Ezra Pound
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
By : Iggy Pop
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language
By : Marcus V. Pollio
Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves.
By : Ted Poe
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
By : Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state
By : Plato
You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
By : Robert Plant
I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
By : Walter Piston