Music Quotes · Page 247

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

— Edward Snowden

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

— Joan Armatrading

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

— Adnan Sami

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

— John Hickenlooper

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

— Anonymous

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

— Matt Bomer

“...'You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always…

— Kapka Kassabova

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it,…

— Amanda Palmer

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to…

— Ariana Grande

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway…

— Jimmy Page

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

— Aphex Twin

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

— Leon Russell

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was…

— Peter Tosh

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that…

— Florence Welch

I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause…

— Francis Dunnery

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or…

— C. V. Raman

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't…

— Smokey Robinson

The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility…

— William Bolitho

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all…

— Zaytoven

It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the…

— Jonathan Adelstein

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what…

— Elliot Cowan

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked…

— Tim Burton

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

— Rick Springfield

Thank you music for always being there, even when no one was.

— Beeru Singh

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

— Willie Nelson

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

— Beyonce Knowles

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music.

— Sky Blu

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

— Martina McBride

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

— Christopher Nolan

The U.K. trio Let's Wrestle doesn't make music for its art, but for its attitude.

— Anthony Fantano

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

— Cecil Taylor

I listen to a lot of music, and sometimes I feel things, and sometimes I don't.

— Cedella Marley

We are literally touring the world, and people are listening to my music.

— Adore Delano

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

— Steve Earle

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

— Josh Homme

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

— Paul Young