Quotes about music

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It’s not a speculative market. It’s a very, very large market. It’s been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Steve Jobs

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it’s not about being loud, it’s about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

Amy Winehouse

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Carlos Santana

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.

Søren Kierkegaard

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it.

Amy Winehouse