Music Quotes · Page 281

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.

— Crystal Bowersox

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

— Juliana Hatfield

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

— Edith Piaf

Sometimes Id think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

— John Coltrane

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

— Sebastian Faulks

I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as…

— Rahki

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun…

— Rose Schneiderman

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

— Kim Gordon

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

— Victor Borge

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot…

— Denny Laine

In film, you can create the illusion of time and space. People speak; characters reveal their feelings. You can use music, which…

— Edward Burtynsky

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so…

— Walter Becker

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than…

— Charles Ives

I've always enjoyed dancing and going clubbing. I've always been interested in electronic music. I would love more than anything to see…

— KT Tunstall

“Zhi yin. Jem had told her once that it meant understanding music, and also a bond that went deeper than friendship. Jem…

— Cassandra Clare

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in…

— Jason Luke

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their…

— Shawn Amos

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone…

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I was mostly raised on Christian rock and country music.

— Chappell Roan

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

— Ira Gershwin

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

— Twyla Tharp

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

— Dave East

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

— Thia Megia

We've made music to boost people up, make people happy and to inspire them.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

— Rich Mullins

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

— Parineeti Chopra

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

— Tom Anderson

We have songs like 'Holiday in My Head,' which has that 'All Star' vibe to it.

— Steve Harwell

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

— Alasdair Gray

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

— Benmont Tench