Music Quotes · Page 354

I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.

— Maddie Marlow

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

— Amy Winehouse

I knew it was too good to be real.That's why I feel nothing. I let the music do it for me.

— Jasmine

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

— Ray Charles

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

— Sarah McCoy

“Not all musicians believe in God, but they all believe in Johann Sebastian Bach”

— Mauricio Kagel

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

— Diana Gabaldon

I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all…

— Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

Were so far away they had no idea of the impact we were making. They saw the music as local music that…

— Paul Wall

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at…

— Hermann Hesse

“But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen.…

— Sinead O'Connor

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

— Erykah Badu

My music was more inspired by my hair color! After 5 years of blonde, I went back to my original color. It…

— Ashley Tisdale

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought…

— Justine Bateman

Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and…

— Anonymous

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop…

— Jay-Z

Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around…

— Jason Aldean

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the…

— Jarvis Cocker

The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write…

— Courtney Hood

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,…

— Pearl S. Buck

“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear…

— Lisa Wingate

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

— Javed Ali

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

— Jimmy Iovine

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

— Francoise Sagan

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

— Simon Raymonde

I'm trying to fill the gaping hole in my chest with music.

— Anonymous

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

— Nick Rhodes

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

— Adnan Sami

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

— Kamasi Washington

I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.

— Van Hunt

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

— R-Truth

“Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.”

— Damien Rice

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

— Archie Shepp

Baby you light up my world like nobody else I whisper as I turn my laptop brightness up.

— Anonymous

John Lydon must be more famous for his efforts on behalf of dairy products than his music.

— David Hepworth