Music Quotes · Page 273

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

— Billy Corgan

New Orleans just embraces people who love music.

— Mannie Fresh

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

— Ava Max

Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

— Leo Sayer

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

— Ice T

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

— Yoko Ono

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

— Irvine Welsh

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of…

— Richard Thompson

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this."…

— Tom Waits

Once you sing a song, it's your song. Once a music director entrusts you with a song, it's your song. So I…

— KK

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what…

— A. R. Rahman

You don't do slow songs at festivals unless they're No1 hits and everyone knows every lyric. They all need to be upbeat.

— Griff

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play…

— Hans Zimmer

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

— James Weldon Johnson

My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the…

— Zaytoven

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep…

— Anonymous

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely…

— Jimmy Webb

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it…

— Bob Dylan

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what…

— Mike Leigh

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it!…

— Gillian Jacobs

My step dad's from Nigeria, so he listened to Highlife music from Africa. He was also into hip-hop and R&B, and from…

— Jax Jones

Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't…

— Allan Holdsworth

My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.

— Shawn Colvin

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

— Pattie Boyd

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

— Robert Mayer

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

— Lewis Capaldi

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

A friend is someone who likes the same music you like <3 ..

— Anonymous

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

— Sharon Van Etten

I chose people who would complement the songs that I put them on.

— Ahmad Balshe

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

“Catch me I'm falling. Please hear me calling. Catch me before it's too late!”

— Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt

Writing songs is a solo activity, so, if I put my mind to it, I can do it.

— Joe Hisaishi

I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

— Kim Shattuck

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

— Marcel Proust

“Hearing tells you the music is playing. Listening tells you what the song is saying!”

— Rick Rigsby

Want to have a better day? Have music with breakfast, art with lunch, and dance after dinner.

— Anonymous

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

— Roger Glover