Music Quotes · Page 252

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

— Arijit Singh

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

— Rashida Jones

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

— Carter Burwell

I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs.

— Tyler Childers

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

— Burt Bacharach

Music is life. It can get you through your toughest times.

— Anonymous

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

— Gregory David Roberts

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

— Moby

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I…

— Andrew Wyatt

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with…

— Elvin Jones

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that…

— John Cage

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

— Jonathan Hull

All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to…

— John 5

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

— Randy Owen

“I personally go for highly-tattooed skinny commitment-phobic musicians with ridiculous amounts of facial hair, but I can certainly see what women might…

— Alice Bex

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different…

— Dar Williams

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human…

— Abraham Maslow

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way.…

— Porter Robinson

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women…

— Ann Powers

“Yeah', said Fats. 'Fucking and dying. That's it, innit? Fucking and dying. That's life.' 'Trying to get a fuck and trying not…

— J. K. Rowling

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is…

— Grandmaster Flash

Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular…

— Don Alias

I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store…

— Keith Allen

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

— Steve Lacy

Im not a musician,im just telling you people whats going on in streets.

— SARkARR

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

— Colin Marston

It's music to my ears to hear Americans being proud of being American!

— Anonymous

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

— Chuck Eddy

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

— Henry Mancini

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

— LaToya Jackson

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

— Jeff Ament

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

— Hoagy Carmichael

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

— Dionne Warwick

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

— Amy Winehouse

As a music man, the musical tradition in Ireland is incredible; I could listen to it for hours.

— Noah Reid

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

— Lee Konitz

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

— Travis Scott

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

— Volker Bertelmann

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

— Jon Foreman