Music Quotes · Page 313

You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now the music of the night.

— Anonymous

“Life and death is like music. Life is the note. Death is the silence. Play your note well.”

— Robert G. Moons

Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.

— Marc Anthony

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

— Michael Bolton

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

— Jeff Lynne

“Music soothes the mind just as painkillers would soothe a sprain.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

— Jimmy Iovine

In 'Lion King,' the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.

— John Kani

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being…

— Joni Mitchell

Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a…

— Frank Iero

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy…

— Vanessa Veselka

I'm just not sticking to one thing. I like to have fun with it. I like to spread myself in many ways,…

— Flo Rida

The isolation of Eastern Europe actually helped me to be so original. I couldn't travel so much, I had to find my…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

— Flying Lotus

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

— Bob Gaudio

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you…

— Brad Pitt

With The Brood, it was cool because it had the music, it had the different look and at the time reality-based characters…

— Christian Cage

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds.…

— Daveed Diggs

I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can…

— Melanie Martinez

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or…

— Ben Gibbard

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black…

— Amanda Seales

“Many years later after the sell-outs, betrayals, and hatred which would tear us apart, when our brotherhood had been destroyed, I’d always…

— H. Alazhar

I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very…

— Nick Lowe

I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best…

— Frederic Chopin

The strongest and sweetest song remains to be sung

— Walt Whitman

I grew up in the '70s, so I even love the music that I didn't like from that era.

— Paul Gilbert

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

— Matisyahu

“If we fail to listen to music, we shall be miserable.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

— Richard Hawley

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

— Ezra Furman

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

— Domhnall Gleeson

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

I make catchy, easy music which the public can grasp easily.

— Anu Malik

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

— Genesis P-Orridge

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

— Moby

While composing the music for 'Romeo,' I will be very versatile.

— Jeet Gannguli