Music Quotes · Page 1,051

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

— Juice Newton

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

— Anonymous

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

— Five for Fighting

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene - completely different from the party music I…

— Porter Robinson

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because…

— Jennifer Lopez

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a…

— Alice Cooper

I personally stream or download from iTunes because I love the quick access that I have to music; I don't have to…

— Katie Melua

When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory…

— Khalil Gibran

People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of…

— Adrian Dunbar

I feel like music and design complete the idea of each other for me. So, it's like whatever I'm trying to express…

— Tycho

“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,…

— Walt Whitman

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form…

— Keith Richards

Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with…

— John Clare

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their…

— Ben Lovett

Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets,…

— Walt Whitman

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside…

— Steve Wynn

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

— Andrea Gibson

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

— Akon

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

— Joe Strummer

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

— Conor Oberst

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind,…

— KT Tunstall

I've been surfing once in my entire life and I wasn't terrible at it, but my love for music is like the…

— Carrie Underwood

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided…

— J-Hope

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

— King Diamond

Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and…

— Steve Lukather

I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first…

— Amybeth McNulty

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains…

— Ridgely Torrence

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of…

— Neil Tennant

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor.…

— Bryce Courtenay

When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried…

— Pat Conroy

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled.…

— Margaret Atwood

I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.

— Michael McDonald

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

— Plutarch

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

— Michael Ball

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25…

— Lee Hazlewood

It feels like there are more good youts out there following their dreams. It's not just music; they're doing loads of stuff…

— Giggs

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

— Norbert Leo Butz

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost…

— Florence Welch