Music Quotes · Page 1,057

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I…

— Anonymous

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

— David Lynch

“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.”

— Patience Johnson

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music,…

— Rico Nasty

And when I look back, at all the crazy fights we have, Like some kind of M-m-madness, Was taking control,

— Westaytrippy

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to…

— Hiromi Uehara

For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and 'The White Album.' The 70s is the period that…

— James Righton

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard…

— Julien Baker

“Wait Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now?…

— Galway Kinnell

As a firm believer in the power of songwriting, I feel privileged to be part of a team that continues to help…

— Steve Stoute

I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female…

— Avril Lavigne

Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else… It's just too…

— Jim Gibbons

There's no truth whatsoever to that statement. That's just frivolity on behalf of some unscrupulous clowns. What I'm interested to know is…

— Vybz Kartel

There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a…

— James Righton

Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a…

— Patricia Wright

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very…

— Pete Townshend

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often…

— Hamid Drake

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

— Van Morrison

“Look up. Listen to the melody. If you want to dance, then you can’t fight the music; you have to flow with…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that…

— Finn Wolfhard

Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig…

— Becky Hill

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

— Terry Pratchett

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with…

— James Hetfield

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini…

— Jack Garratt

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or,…

— James Gleick

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it…

— Hugo Wolf

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The…

— Charlie Sheen

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

— Ricky Skaggs

Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity,…

— Randy Rainbow

Music is the thing you can really get personal with without people really knowing what it's about.

— Ava Michelle

I only had, like, 4 CDs when I was in college, and one of them was the soundtrack to 'Good Morning Vietnam'…

— Keiko Agena

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and…

— Brian McLaren

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

— Kevin Eubanks

I dropped out of school at 17 'cause all I wanted to do was play music. I had odd jobs on the…

— Passenger

I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way…

— Kaskade

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

— Sena Jeter Naslund

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

— Graciela Iturbide

I like to think that everything I do is tastefully done and doesn't come off necessarily like ratchet or something that tears…

— Raheem DeVaughn

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

— Barry Manilow

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get…

— India Arie