Music Quotes · Page 255

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

— Ted Leo

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

— Craig Zadan

I always try to leave songs open for people to interpret in their own ways.

— Ryan Bingham

I love old school music, that's just always been my thing.

— Big Daddy Kane

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

— Mark Salling

I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I didn't start in the music business to make money.

— Porter Wagoner

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

— Dick Dale

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just…

— Terry Riley

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do…

— Jens Lekman

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just…

— Albert Hammond, Jr

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

— David Crosby

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop…

— Keith Jarrett

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

— Jerome Kern

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

— Yvonne Strahovski

When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made…

— Toni Morrison

To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its…

— Tom Robbins

So much of what deejays like myself do is, I'm very interested in - I'm constantly looking for new music, constantly digging,…

— DJ /rupture

The only thing I say I consciously do is I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not…

— John Congleton

Naturally, underground music often gravitates toward experimentation and the abstract. That's understandable, and more often than not, it feels great to dive…

— Anthony Fantano

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening…

— Benny Blanco

I remember Shammi Kapoor for his great sense of music. If he loved a song, he would go to any speaks of…

— Saira Banu

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music…

— Phil Elverum

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

— Natalie Imbruglia

“Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.”

— Bryant McGill

I've always treated the music business as a business.

— Simon Cowell

I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music.

— Brooke Hogan

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

— Lou Gramm

Listening to songs from when you were younger and realizing how dirty the lyrics are.

— Anonymous

Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be

— Bob Marley

I love dancing, especially to songs with Latin vibe.

— Shibani Dandekar

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

— Jacob Braude

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

— Rosalia

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

— Ben Weinman

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

— Benjamin Britten

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

— Diana Krall

“Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.”

— Vinod Varghese Antony

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

— Herb Alpert