Music Quotes · Page 1,024

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

— Michael Giles

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out…

— Randy Travis

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or…

— Tupac Shakur

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

— Steve Grand

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be…

— Chris Daughtry

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

— Miguel

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

— Kristin Chenoweth

“Smile, when you don't want to. Give, when you feel you have nothing to give. Go for a walk, when you don't…

— Charles F. Glassman

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you…

— Shane MacGowan

The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared…

— Michael Tierra

When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I…

— Josh Groban

I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you…

— Stephen Mallinder

“Someone must be having a big party, Shyla thought as she turned into her neighborhood, the rhythmic salsa beat of Latin music…

— Barbara Casey

“Yeah – Sure I remember Matter of fact it was just last September She still calls it the fall to remember Little…

— ZOEgirl

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and…

— John Waters

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

— Yung Lean

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just…

— Ethan Coen

I think Bengalis would relate to my love for music more than anyone else, as for them, music is not just a…

— Jubin Nautiyal

When your parents leave you home alone ... Well, its time toteach the neighbor what good music is.

— Anonymous

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until…

— Jodi Picoult

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put…

— Jon Foreman

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from…

— Lars Ulrich

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved…

— Rick Wakeman

We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and…

— Lee Ranaldo

Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you'd go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk.

— Ricky Reed

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to…

— Dan Bejar

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

— Stephen Sondheim

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that…

— Roger Scruton

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

— Bjork

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into…

— Reba McEntire

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

— Orianthi

My influences have been mainly Californian and Mediterranean music, so I guess you could call it spaghetti western.

— Jack Savoretti

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really…

— Tavi Gevinson

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it’s amazing !

— Mutya Buena

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

— Thomas Dolby

My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play…

— Ramin Djawadi

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we…

— Ringo Starr

I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when…

— Lynn Whitfield

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people…

— Ed O'Brien