Music Quotes · Page 193

I did a postgrad at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

— Cressida Bonas

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

— Don Cornelius

Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension.

— Donovan

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

— Emily Robison

Music and fashion really do go hand in hand. This is even going back to the reggae days.

— Jazzie B

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

— Paul McCartney

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

— Adam Levine

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded…

— Ted Nugent

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long…

— Tupac Shakur

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

— Ne-Yo

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual…

— Jonny Greenwood

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

— Rudolf Steiner

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't…

— Cass McCombs

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked…

— John Legend

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So…

— Utah Phillips

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't…

— David Crosby

I love Narcy, he's such a good artist. I know him personally, he's a friend. He's of my generation - he puts…

— Ramy Youssef

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign…

— Brendon Urie

The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything…

— Hannah Fry

For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see…

— Moby

We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back…

— RZA

I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.

— The Weeknd

“There 's music in all things, if men had ears:”

— George Gordon Byron

People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.

— Blackbear

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

— Dwight Henry

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

— Labrinth

Music was the first place that I ever started to develop a relationship with myself.

— JP Saxe

Our aim is to bring everyone together through BABYMETAL's music.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I love to make everything as much about the music as possible.

— Nadine Coyle

Its rediculous, its been months since ive spoken to you, can we keep in touch?

— Luckiees Mix

I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.

— Yo Gotti

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

— Michael Ball

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

— Connie Britton

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

— Ryan Ross

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

— Louis Sachar

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

— Greg Laswell

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

— Joss Whedon