Quotes about music

I’ve made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

Lady Gaga

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Vernon Howard

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I’m in a good flow, I don’t even hear it.

Sylvester Stallone

If you can make music with someone you don’t need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women.

Billy Joel

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Frank Zappa

I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Billy Joel

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to ‘get culture’ or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

Alan Watts

I’m writing new music all the time. I’m just not writing pop stuff. It’s not my goal.

Billy Joel

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can’t listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

Dale Carnegie