Music Quotes · Page 379

Well, Tony Yayo is my dude. Tony Yayo is a big supporter of my music.

— Lil B

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

— Sax Rohmer

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

— Astrid S

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

— John Perry Barlow

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

— Tod Machover

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

— Rita Ora

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

— Alessia Cara

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it…

— Diane Ackerman

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces…

— Beck

I've wanted to do a Christmas song for years but thought every lyric and melody had been written.

— Limahl

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into…

— Jason Aldean

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

— Sixto Rodriguez

As a songwriter, it's my least favourite job to tell people how they should hear my music. The fact they want to…

— Maisie Peters

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you…

— Chely Wright

I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people…

— Charli XCX

“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the…

— Dave Matthes

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?…

— George Eliot

Intelligence is what allows us to create forms of governance, cure disease, create art and music, discover, dream and love. Intelligence is…

— Bryan Johnson

Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass…

— Paul Simon

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?…

— Chuck Israels

I've been trying to do this music thing for so long, I kind of got addicted to struggle, the grind, so typically…

— Jimmie Allen

I've had international success so whenever you may not have seen me in America, I may have been in Dubai doing something.…

— Sisqo

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

— Ankit Tiwari

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

— Emmylou Harris

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

— Gloria Gaynor

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

— Scott Ian

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

— Greg Gutfeld

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

— Chris Robinson

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

— Sigrid

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

— Clyde Edgerton

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

— Lenny Kravitz

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

— Kevin Gates

Everyone be quiet! I'm trying to shazam this song...

— Nicky Hilton

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

— Paul Rodgers

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

— John Legend