Music Quotes · Page 245

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

— Nicolas Cage

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

— Bryan Clay

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

— Eric Dolphy

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

— John McLaughlin

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

— Marty Stuart

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

— Elvis Stojko

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

— Dweezil Zappa

Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie.

— Sriram Raghavan

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking…

— James Iha

I love how it feels to go into the gym, crank all my favorite music and literally sweat out all of the…

— Jeannie Mai

“Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot…

— Aurelio Voltaire Hernández

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

— Lil Durk

When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out…

— Khalid

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

— Karol G

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other…

— Ezra Koenig

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry,…

— Lemmy

“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every…

— Ted Hughes

“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others…

— Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

We might sort of do our music, talk about experiences that we've been through, but we would never tell the full story…

— B-Real

As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my…

— Kendrick Lamar

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why…

— Josh Klinghoffer

Here's the good thing about it: I don't have to depend on some jerk disc jockey whose wife doesn't like me, and…

— Lorrie Morgan

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was…

— Holly Hunter

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized…

— Steve Winwood

If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.

— Mike Patton

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

— Steven Van Zandt

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

— Bob Marley

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.

— Al Kooper

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

— Jon Hopkins

There's nothing better than live music, I think.

— Sam Palladio

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

— Loretta Lynn

It is important to have emotion, to live through the music onstage.

— Mirella Freni

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

— Soccer Mommy

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

— Josh McDermitt

“Made a lot of changes But not forgetting who i was”

— One Direction

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

— Greg Iles

My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.

— Donovan

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

— Zubin Mehta

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows - they're not about me.

— Madison Beer

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

— Jonathan Cain