Quotes about music

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

Stevie Wonder

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Mark Zuckerberg

A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

T. S. Eliot

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all can understand.

Stevie Wonder

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Sting

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, ‘Us too, Mary.’ And I didn’t know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

Mary J. Blige

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Michelle Obama

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

Stevie Wonder

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time – a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that. It is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.

Sting

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Walt Whitman