29 quotes
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”
"The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you."
— Anne Hathaway
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
— Leonard Bernstein
"Writing songs is almost like therapy; you can go in kind of angry or sad, and it makes the song better because it’s real feelings in it."
— Paul McCartney
"I can kind of follow sheet music, but if it gets complicated, I can't really read it."
"I think the Beatles was when I was about 19."
"The great thing about 'Yesterday' was it kind of wrote itself. I just woke up one morning and thought, 'What's that? I like that tune.'"
"I had a dream... my mother came to me in the dream and said, 'Don't worry, it's gonna be fine, just let it be.'"
"The only thing better than singing is more singing."
— Ella Fitzgerald
"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."
— Taylor Swift
"Without music life is a journey through a desert."
— Pat Conroy
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."
— Mahalia Jackson
"Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness."
— Jason Mraz
"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."
— Bono
"The music has to change because they keep inventing new things. It's not just music; the whole universe is a series of cycles."
— John Lennon
"A good song is a good song. You can jazz it up with whatever rhythm you like, but if the song is there, it stands."
"I never felt we were big rivals; we were the Beatles, they were the Rolling Stones."
— Ringo Starr
"I thought it was a great character, so I started this song about a lonely old lady who picks up the rice in the church."
"We didn't need a click track... if you were a good band, you just had to hold the tempo."
"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
— Robert Browning