Music Quotes · Page 1,101

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

— Maya Beiser

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

— Laura Bell Bundy

I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some…

— Johnny Van Zant

I have learnt music from my mom and 'Mission Mangal' is lead by women, so I feel extremely special composing this song.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the…

— Peter Gabriel

“A knock on my office door interrupted the despondency of my broodings. “Come in!” I called, removing the countenance I currently wore…

— Gabriellyn Gidman

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

— Lupe Fiasco

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played…

— Pablo Casals

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings…

— Tod Machover

I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they…

— Charles Hazlewood

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came…

— Frankie Valli

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working…

— Laura Mvula

I would like to do one of Ilaiyaraaja's songs. After all, I did play drums for him and have watched him closely…

— Y. G. Mahendran

My hope is that very young people in America who have experience with the streets, hip-hop, college, higher learning will fuse all…

— Killer Mike

I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put…

— KT Tunstall

“We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans,…

— Hanson

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something…

— Chuck Berry

Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.

— Asha Bhosle

It's the most important thing, that you're happy with your music and your style. You can't create success and you can't create…

— Bill Kaulitz

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in…

— Chris Stapleton

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs…

— Vikram Seth

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird…

— Planningtorock

Music full of relevant and money's overrated. That's why I spend it like I look at it with hatred.

— Wale

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another…

— J. G. Holland

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything…

— Taylor Swift

Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'

— Henry Mancini

There's a large difference between someone listen to music by ears and someone enjoy it by heart

— Black Son Beats

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

— Tom Waits

Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the…

— M. Jayachandran

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out…

— Thurston Moore

All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see…

— Alessia Cara

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

— David Byrne

I been doing music since I was 15 years old. I found it intriguing, just from liking and listening to music.

— Gunna

The dark night, Bright shiny lights, Music bumping in the background, Let the dj wisp me away from my stress

— Jasmine Dale

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because…

— Shakira

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes…

— Jared Leto

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment…

— Alban Berg

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

— Kate Bush

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn