Quotes about music

I’m proud to be white. I don’t have anything against my color. But I don’t think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn’t matter that I’m a white dude doin’ black music.

Mark Wahlberg

I’m really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn’t grow up freestyling.

Billy Idol

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Richard Branson

I’m quite arty. I didn’t know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Ed Sheeran

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

William Shakespeare

I like to get in my own world. When I’m getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up.

Michael Phelps

Rock n’ roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it’s brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

Frank Sinatra

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Michael Phelps

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

Martin Luther King Jr.