Quotes about music

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Oscar Wilde

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

Ed Sheeran

Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.

Jay-Z

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Jesse Jackson

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Confucius

For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I’m doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can’t sleep – I haven’t slept for three days.

Lady Gaga

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

George Bernard Shaw

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

Elijah Wood