Music Quotes · Page 249

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

— Ruston Kelly

There was always a real camaraderie with No Doubt. It was always more than the music.

— Tony Kanal

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

— John Otto

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

— Wayne Coyne

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

— Jensen Ackles

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

— Townes Van Zandt

“when everything else in life fails, there still has to be music.”

— L.H. Cosway

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

— Maria Callas

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

— Matt Cameron

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should…

— Heather McDonald

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls…

— India Arie

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I…

— Maggie Rogers

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I…

— Nancy Wilson

A lot of people make music to sell music. I don't just sell music. I am essentially, I guess the word I…

— Omarion

I didn't really get any success till I was 30 years old. I played music when I was young fella, but I…

— J. J. Cale

I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums,…

— Mike Portnoy

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not…

— Henry David Thoreau

I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm…

— Yuna

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and…

— Lou Barlow

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw…

— David Guetta

There's a lot of musicians and songwriters who as soon as they ascend into being professional, they elect to lead the life…

— CMAT

“Of these five features, harmonic consistency is clearly the most culturally specific. The idea that music should consist of rapidly changing chords…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then…

— Victor Skrebneski

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and…

— Peter Kreeft

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

— Van Morrison

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

— Alexis Taylor

I was a weird kid. I loved music, and I loved reading about God.

— Dion DiMucci

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

— Karolina Kurkova

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

— Boots Riley

“I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt." Lula - High Five”

— Janet Evanovich

Back and forth, round and round, I kinda like it this way

— 5SOS

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

— Ikue Mori

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

— Matthew Perry

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

— Deeyah Khan

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

— Jimi Hendrix

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

— Peter Tosh

To just be able to sing and show off the chops is kind of why I got into the music industry.

— Tiffany Darwish

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

— Brian Setzer

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

— Philip Bailey

I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.

— Bryson Tiller