Music Quotes · Page 204

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

— Jonathan Jackson

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

— Russell Malone

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

— Philip Levine

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

— Alison Goldfrapp

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it

— Wyclef Jean

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

— Sade Adu

'The Sound of Music' is one of my favourite old musical films.

— Hiromi Uehara

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

— India Arie

“music is a vast field, if a real person loves music, he will become a real man, everywhere in the nature we…

— Abin Saju

“Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“The song of the banshee varies with the listener. The dying hear the music of the spheres. Those left behind hear something…

— Brunonia Barry

Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my…

— Jacques Villeneuve

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

— Patrick Wilson

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

The only thing worse than having a song stuck in your head is not knowing the name of the damn song!

— Anonymous

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it.…

— Dan Hawkins

When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music…

— Lizzo

I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but…

— Kamasi Washington

The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound…

— Raymond Scott

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm…

— Sam Shepard

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I…

— Joan Baez

When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music."…

— Mikky Ekko

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC.…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,…

— Gil Kalai

I like singing all kinds of songs, be it a soft number or a peppy track.

— Javed Ali

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine...

— Ernest Dowson

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

— John Barbirolli

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous.

— Alicia Keys

One reason I rarely listen to radio is they don't play our music much.

— Rick Nielsen

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

— Charlotte Caffey

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

— Lil Yachty

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

— Miles Davis

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

— Devin Townsend

Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.

— Curt Smith

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

— Derek Walcott

“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.”

— Patience Johnson

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

— Trent Reznor

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

— Bill Bailey