Music Quotes

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't use old music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Gabriel Marcel

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

George Martin

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

George Michael

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

George Michael

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

George Michael

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

George Michael

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

Gerry Mulligan

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not...

Gian Carlo Menotti

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

Giorgio Moroder

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Giorgio Moroder

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

Giorgio Moroder

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Giorgio Moroder

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Giuseppe Mazzini

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Graeme Murphy