Music Quotes · Page 1,074

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by…

— Brad Paisley

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a…

— Alice Nutter

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all…

— Dierks Bentley

Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that…

— Daniel Lubetzky

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with…

— Jamie Foxx

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.

— Chamillionaire

There was so much music growing up. But definitely Lil Wayne was a big influence because I had more of an understanding…

— DaBaby

“Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor”

— Andy Ostrom

If you were a musician playing our tunes, you had to play the bass like me for the song to sound right.…

— Larry Graham

Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life…

— Jennifer James

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony…

— Charles Mingus

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it…

— Anonymous

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't…

— Jerry Garcia

I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a…

— Michael Giacchino

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a…

— Steve Vai

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk…

— Jez Butterworth

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want…

— Zac Efron

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never…

— Anton Corbijn

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives…

— Michael Franti

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.

— Kim Petras

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in…

— Gail Zappa

If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will…

— Russ

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music…

— Barkhad Abdi

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

— Kevin Parker

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

— Marcel Dzama

“Music has gone the way of food. People want it fast and cheap and they don’t care what it tastes like or…

— Yvonne Prinz

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

— Mick Ronson

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour,…

— Jason Mraz

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another…

— Wayne Dyer

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

— Irving Berlin

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of…

— Sam Palladio

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

— Tom Morello

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you…

— Andrew Bird

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

— Natalie Prass

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

— Garth Brooks

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

— Jeff Buckley