New Music Quotes

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Memorable, Kramer, Thirsty

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• There is music in all things, if men had ears.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Ears

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I have a lot of new music that I'm very excited about.

  Kate Brown

  Excited

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

  Jose Gonzalez

  People, Soul, Sound

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

  Alan Palomo

  Culture, Internet, Old Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I listen to all sorts of things. I get kind of embarrassed with my iPod, because I am a top-40 type of girl; I am not the kind of person to introduce people to new music.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Girl, Ipods, People

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

  Melanie Fiona

  Winning, Taste, Audience

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• I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

  Kevin Shields

  Ebb And Flow, Musical, Trends

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

  Heidi Montag

  Albums, Dollars, Superficial

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

  Bob Weir

  Music, Light, Challenges

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• I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

  Mark Hoppus

  Artist, People, Asking

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

  Brendon Urie

  Mp3, Cds, Listening

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.

  Tod Machover

  Morning, Artist, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

  Clint Black

  Mp3, Creating, Important

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• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  Gavin Bryars

  Festivals, Academic, Modern

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Musician, Groups

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.

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• It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.

  Gwen Stefani

  Giving, Bugs, Helping

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

  Michael Cera

  Talking, Ideas, Age

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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