Quotes about music

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

Michael Jackson

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

Arthur Rubinstein

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Beyonce

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

Woodrow Wilson

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Carl Sagan

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Michael Jackson

Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.

Maya Angelou

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

Wayne Dyer