Hey Everyone,
I think that to be a good guitarist or musician or even just someone who listens to music it helps to listen to what musicians and thinkers have to say about it. So now I am going to share some music quotes. Hope they inspire you!




But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Ritchie Blackmore

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
Adele

“If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.”
Steve Vai

“Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.”
Steve Vai

“It's always a hoot to apply a screaming guitar to a high-action visual.”
Steve Vai


“A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.”
Steve Vai

Paralysis by analysis - the downfall of so many artists.
Quincy Jones

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Bon Jovi

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B.B. King

Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible. A refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together.
Bill Evans

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
The Beatles

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
Mick Jagger

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
Beethoven

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Mozart

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Stravinsky

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Mahler

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
Gary Cherone

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."
B. B. King

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Gustav Mahler

"If music be the food of love, play on."
William Shakespeare

"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
Thomas Carlyle

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
Benjamin Britten

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
Bruce Beresford

"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
Stevie Nicks

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
Bono

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

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
Herbie Hancock

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
Lao Tzu

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"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."
Plato

"Music is love in search of a word."
Sidney Lanier

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul

"Music is my religion."
Jimi Hendrix

“I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.”
Jimmy Page

“I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.”
Jimmy Page

“The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.”
Jimmy Page

“We were in a constant state of musical growth. Each album reflected the general consciousness that we were at in that point in time.”
Jimmy Page


" It´s only Rock´n Roll... but a I like it.."
Mick Jagger

Does anyone remember laughter?
Robert Plant

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
Robert Plant

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
Robert Plant

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Robert Plant

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
Robert Plant

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
Robert Plant

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
Robert Plant

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
Robert Plant

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
Robert Plant

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
Robert Plant

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.
Robert Plant

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Robert Plant

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Robert Plant

Here is my favorite: "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
Ray Charles




I would like to try to update these as much as possible and make new posts whenever I can. If you have anything to say about music I will quote you too...or if you would like to quote someone please leave it in a comment!
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