Music Quotes · Page 377

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

— Cat Stevens

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

— Albert Ayler

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

— DJ Spooky

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.

— Jaden Smith

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.

— Dawn Richard

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

— Mac Anderson

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

— Michael Giacchino

“Crosby, Stills and Nash songs, Teach Your Children: Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry, so…

— Jennifer Connors

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I…

— Kendrick Lamar

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

— Paul Gilbert

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent…

— Keren Ann

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

— Jeff Beck

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of…

— Glenn Gould

Anybody wherever I've ever been in my life, one thing they can always say good or bad, I was always doing music…

— The Kid Laroi

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,…

— Gordon Getty

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of…

— Wynton Marsalis

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so…

— Peter Max

“With our music, and music that we popularize, we try to reach out and remind people that, when taken out of the…

— Eugene Hutz

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really…

— Hideo Kojima

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never…

— Duke Ellington

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture.…

— King Princess

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in…

— Julia Holter

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the…

— Louisa May Alcott

I have a lot more control with music, whereas with acting, there are so many people involved.

— Sophie Thatcher

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

— Julie Andrews

I'm not concerned at all to have a number one song or a top 10 or top 50 or top whatever.

— Anitta

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

— Henry Mancini

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

— Ewan McGregor

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

— Danny Fox

I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.

— Mabel

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

— Jaime Preciado

People screw me over with words, so I screw them over with songs.

— Greyson Chance

I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.

— Rodney Crowell

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

— Kailash Kher

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

— Les Baxter

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

— Fela Kuti