Music Quotes · Page 192

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

— Jihae

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

— Ian MacKaye

We became the songs we wrote.

— Barry Mann

People respond to any good you can do in music.

— Ry Cooder

I'm saddest when I sing.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

— Anonymous

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

— Ani DiFranco

I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

— George Thorogood

Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.

— Russ

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

— Neon Hitch

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

— Gregory Harrison

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,

— Questlove

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped,…

— Anthony Mackie

And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it's like I have to slowly get back…

— Lil Nas X

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

— Rashida Jones

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

— Ad-Rock

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization…

— John Cage

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

— Prince

Knowing a person is like music. What attracts us to them is their melody, and as we get to know who they…

— Anonymous

The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know,…

— Miles Davis

There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question.…

— Noel Gallagher

“It is tempting to look upon England as a sort of musical Australia, an island culture inhabited by, and sustaining, its own…

— Richard Taruskin

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find…

— Christine Elise

I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's…

— Lalo Schifrin

I try to mix the fashion with the music and what's going on at the time...at the time [when my uniform was…

— Pusha T

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our…

— Karen Carpenter

The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are…

— Bow Wow

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you…

— Anton Corbijn

“The sweetest little song: You go your way I'll go your way too!”

— Leonard Cohen

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

— Quincy Jones

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

— Kelli O'Hara

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

— Andrew Eldritch

Since I was about a little boy, I've always wanted to do music.

— William Singe

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

— John Scofield

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.

— Neeraj Chopra

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

— Rabindranath Tagore

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

— Anthony Fantano