Music Quotes

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Tinie Tempah

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Toru Takemitsu

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Toru Takemitsu

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

Travis Tritt

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seei...

Twyla Tharp

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

Twyla Tharp

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

Twyla Tharp

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Twyla Tharp

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Tomas Luis de Victoria

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

Tony Visconti

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

Tony Visconti

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

Teddy Wilson

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Terri Windling

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Tina Weymouth

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Tina Weymouth

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Tina Weymouth

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

Tom Waits