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  • The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music. -- Mavis Staples
  • A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. -- Henry Rollins
  • There are no musically untalented people. -- Igor Levit
  • Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. -- Roy Ayers
  • I have absolutely no musical talent of my own! -- Danny Strong
  • Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode. -- Love The Stacks Bookstore
  • I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems. -- Sly Stone
  • If love was easy, there would be almost no music. -- Jake Johannsen
  • And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. -- Merle Haggard
  • Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one. -- e. e. cummings
  • There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. -- John Cale
  • I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with. -- Bill Wyman
  • There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven. -- Brigham Young
  • If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. -- Guy Kawasaki
  • Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. -- Tom Waits
  • There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think. -- J. D. Souther
  • When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself. -- Meryl Streep
  • To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. -- Jack Handey
  • You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other -- Jack Handy
  • I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder -- Henry Rollins
  • There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. -- Earle Brown
  • I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance. -- John Higgins
  • I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention. -- Doug Stanhope
  • I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. -- Aimee Mann
  • To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. -- P. T. Barnum
  • That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. -- Harry Styles
  • There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music. -- Tracy Morgan
  • The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare
  • I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls. -- Abigail Adams
  • I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true. -- Arnaud Desplechin
  • God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. -- Jeremy Taylor
  • And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. -- Eva Ibbotson
  • She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. -- Jerry Spinelli
  • I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. -- Hans Frank
  • There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence. -- Marcel Proust
  • As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it. -- Allen Toussaint
  • I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. -- I. M. Pei
  • The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. -- Lewis Thomas
  • The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music." -- Lewis Thomas
  • The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. -- Alberta Hunter
  • I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know. -- Miles Davis
  • When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training. -- Kim Gordon
  • The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God. -- Pharrell Williams
  • I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star. -- Marisa Miller
  • There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody. -- John Ruskin
  • In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees. -- Thom Yorke
  • I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely. -- Elvis Presley
  • The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again. -- Mark Twain
  • I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it. -- Andrew Eldritch
  • There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside. -- Anton Corbijn
  • There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.... -- Rumi
  • It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music. -- Eric Hoffer
  • I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now. -- Charlemagne Palestine
  • I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. -- Moby
  • Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music." -- Moby
  • Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch? -- Robert Bridges
  • There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don't help people who don't have better values than you do. -- Robert Fulghum
  • I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that. -- Troy Polamalu
  • It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on. -- Kevin Brooks
  • Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling. -- Christian Louboutin
  • If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time... -- Charles Kettering
  • There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. -- William Kingdon Clifford
  • There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. -- John Ruskin
  • There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines. -- David Guetta
  • How long until you have to go...reap?" I whispered as my arms slid around his neck. Like we were dancing. Only we weren't moving, and there was no music. "Don't know. Don't care." "Won't you get in trouble if you miss something?" "See my previous answer. -- Rachel Vincent
  • With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike." -- Mindy Kaling
  • I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye. -- Miley Cyrus
  • The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. -- William Shakespeare
  • Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. -- James Shirley
  • The bar is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn't like to talk. -- Luis Bunuel
  • They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night. -- Mark Helprin
  • If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction. -- F. Paul Wilson
  • There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, "yes," in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister. -- Saul Williams
  • Music tells no truths. -- Philip James Bailey
  • I make music with no boundaries. -- Pitbull
  • No, I can't do rap music! -- Dolly Parton
  • Music has no limits, borders or ages. -- Thalia
  • There's no religion but sex and music. -- Sting
  • Music has no race. It appeals to everybody. -- Tinie Tempah
  • No matter what, I'm always interested in making music. -- Chris Robinson
  • Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. -- Amy Grant
  • There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. -- Robert Wyatt
  • I have no desire to play music unless I need music. -- Carrie Brownstein
  • There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. -- Kailash Kher
  • The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise. -- Darren Criss
  • There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is. -- will.i.am
  • Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music. -- Trisha Yearwood
  • The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music. -- Big Boi
  • It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. -- Lee Konitz
  • It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music. -- Lukas Foss
  • Music has no limits of a life-span. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • Life without music is no life at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • There is no such thing as happy music. -- Franz Schubert
  • No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Where there's music there can be no evil. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • I trust no one who hasn't time for music. -- Jack White
  • Music is my friend, no matter where I go. -- John Frusciante
  • If there is no dance, there is not music. -- Tito Puente
  • I love playing music no matter where it is. -- Martin Garrix
  • No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
  • When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music. -- Sabrina Bryan
  • New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky. -- Duke Ellington
  • No matter how hard times are, people still want music. -- Irene Hunt
  • Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, -- Pierre Boulez
  • For in music there is no material to be deducted. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music. -- Sabrina Bryan
  • When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are. -- Kate Voegele
  • I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music. -- Sade Adu
  • Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop. -- Mary Steenburgen
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