Music Quotes · Page 243

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

— Kreesha Turner

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

— Laura Marling

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

— Linda Perry

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

— Branford Marsalis

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

— Jack Teagarden

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

— Alain de Botton

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

— Katy Perry

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

— Roger Taylor

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've…

— Roy Harper

It's an amazing experience to perform in Nagpur! Music aficionados here appreciate good music and shower their love magnanimously on artistes.

— Javed Ali

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

— George Leonard

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

— Thundercat

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know?…

— DJ /rupture

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a…

— Giuseppe Andrews

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance…

— Pope Benedict XVI

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love…

— Matt Redman

“when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays,…

— Anonymous

2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He…

— Curtis Jackson

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued…

— Cillian Murphy

I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with…

— Drake

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut…

— Mac DeMarco

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that…

— Noah Cyrus

All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen…

— Kygo

I mean, we never ever really did it like that, really. I mean, you know, we loosely did it like that, but…

— Medeski Martin And Wood

I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.

— Nancy Wilson

I can make music and try to connect with people across the world. That's really my goal.

— Marvin Bagley III

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

— David Sanborn

“One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.”

— Karl Marx

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

— Frankie Cosmos

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

— Lari White

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

— Peter Frampton

I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.

— Kurt Vile

I am extremely lucky I have done so many songs with Lata Mangeshkar.

— Bappi Lahiri

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

— Vince Staples

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

— Sarah Harding

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

— Kris Allen

I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

— Peter Steele

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

— Oneohtrix Point Never