Music Quotes · Page 276

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach

“Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvre is like music with instruments.”

— Salam Al Shereida

I think the key to the success of a music video lies in its concept and the overall look.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.

— Steven Tyler

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

— Ledisi

“Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.”

— Stephen Chbosky

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

— Bruno Mars

That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys…

— Vinnie Paul

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play…

— Elle King

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

— Brian May

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new…

— Michael Azerrad

I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel…

— Adam Curtis

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better…

— Kid Ink

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually…

— Eric Bachmann

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music…

— Akira Kurosawa

Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest…

— Edgard Varese

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and…

— Jay-Z

There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is…

— Anton Corbijn

It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen,…

— Aleksey Igudesman

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect,…

— Susan Sontag

If your endgame as an actor is that you want as many people as possible to look at you then that's fine,…

— Adrian Lester

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can…

— Alex Ebert

I often make a joke of my parents, because I come from a Nigerian background and there's a stereotype in the Nigerian…

— MNEK

“So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.”

— Mumford & Sons

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

— Tina Yothers

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

— Simon Van Booy

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

— Gary Wright

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

— Jazmine Sullivan

Feel is not something that you learn in a book. Feel is something that you find as a musician.

— Nishan Panwar

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

— Jimi Hendrix

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

— Rob Halford

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

— Kathy Valentine

The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

— Orianthi

I feel sexy when I'm natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.

— Lotte Verbeek

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

— Renee Olstead

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.

— Romare Bearden