Music Quotes · Page 228

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

— Randy Houser

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

— Chronixx

There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.

— Dave Soldier

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

— Sebastian Faulks

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

— Mark Foster

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

— Rick Wakeman

I searched the good music that I loved and found out that was all by Miguel! What a strange coincidence! I'm a…

— Taeyang

I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is…

— Chuck Mosley

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've…

— Cornel West

Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never…

— Pusha T

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to…

— Kanye West

People look up to me, like my music, and even follow me on Instagram because they know I'm keeping it real with…

— Noah Cyrus

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

— G-Dragon

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to…

— Christine Anderson

If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from…

— Claudio Simonetti

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really…

— Anton Yelchin

It's true that we come from the electronic scene in the '90s, but maybe just two years before that we were not…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give…

— Leif Garrett

I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to…

— Lil Dicky

“There was gray train smoke over the town most days, it smelled of travel, of transcontinental trains about to flash by, of…

— Dawn Powell

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is…

— El-P

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

— Al Jarreau

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

— Pat Metheny

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

— Hilary Hahn

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

— Lee Ranaldo

This isnt music and were not a band. Were five middle fingers on a mother f**kin hand.

— Marilyn Manson

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

— John Dewey

Sometimes, music is all you need to make you feel better

— Blossom

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

— Aldous Huxley

I'm not sure how people get eaten by sharks...I mean how do you not hear the music?

— Anonymous

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

— Lil' Kim

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

— Brian Eno

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

— Tyler, The Creator

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

— Terry Bozzio