Music Quotes · Page 301

If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?

— Rob Schwimmer

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

— Ananya Birla

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

— Annie Lennox

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

— Tracie Bennett

If I write songs trying to top other songs, it's a lot of pressure.

— Nicky Jam

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

— Shelby Lynne

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

— Claude Debussy

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

— Janis Joplin

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

— Ian MacKaye

I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.

— Steve Miller

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place…

— Jon Foreman

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a…

— Robert Wyatt

Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving…

— FKA twigs

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one…

— Gus Dapperton

I want to put out music I really believe in, and when I felt that was threatened, I lashed out at everybody.

— James Arthur

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not…

— Neil Gaiman

“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of…

— Haruki Murakami

Under the umbrella of commercial music, there is music which majority of people remember. Then there are songs which only musicians can…

— Jonita Gandhi

I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but…

— Tonya Mitchell

I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to…

— Seinabo Sey

I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the…

— Jay DeMarcus

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal…

— Donal Henahan

“According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are…

— William Carlos Williams

I just want people to listen to my music, respect it and like it.

— Snow Tha Product

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

— Twyla Tharp

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

— Jimmy Iovine

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

— Jason Mraz

Silence sometimes is more musical than any song.

— Laylablack

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

— Tyler Hilton

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

— Marsha Norman

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

— Liam Gallagher

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

— Igor Stravinsky

“The music of hope is everywhere. All you have to do is listen for it.”

— Christine M Knight

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

— Nikki Sixx

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

— Eddie Floyd

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

— Rebecca West

The way I communicate is exactly the way in speech and amongst friends as it is in music.

— CMAT

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

— Katy Perry