Music Quotes · Page 294

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

— Liz Phair

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

— Bruce Sterling

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

— Trippie Redd

Finding someone who has the same taste in music as you is finding your soulmate

— Anonymous

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

— Taylor Swift

I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education.

— Khalid

“Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music”

— Jann Glenn Silla

I firmly believe that music is a thrill, not a frill.

— Sheri Lewis

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable…

— Don Ellis

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others.…

— Jason Newsted

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I…

— Max Tundra

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly…

— Hoodie Allen

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the…

— Chuck D

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

— Chris de Burgh

“You exist. You matter. You have value. You have every right to wear your hoodie, to play your music as loud as…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting…

— Anonymous

Any musical form that has been around long enough to have cultural resonance beyond just being a cutting edge kind of communication…

— Alan Menken

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitious occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death…

— Milan Kundera

The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the…

— John R. Levine

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10…

— Carlo Grante

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do…

— David Russell

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life.…

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but…

— Ben Howard

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

— Luis Fonsi

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

— Robin Thicke

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

— Martin Scorsese

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

— Bobby McFerrin

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

— Flume

Living with our headphones up, 'cause we've got sound and that's enough.

— The Ready Set

White lips, pale face, breathing in the snowflakes.

— Ed Sheeran

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

— Bjork

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

— Glenn Kotche

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

— Yuja Wang

“Pop is music for sheep and we are shepherds disguised as wolves.”

— Laibach

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

— Deborah Wiles

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

— Yip Harburg

Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.

— Ustad Bismillah Khan

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

— Ani DiFranco

I'm always hearing a song saying beam me up to where Scotty you piece of shit.

— Kevin McCarty