Music Quotes · Page 399

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

— Angela Kinsey

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

— Rodney Atkins

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

— Thom Yorke

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

— John Lennon

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

— Naomi Campbell

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

“I’ve been writing more songs in my head,” he said, “about being a ghost and a shade.” His face turned smooth and…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

— Plutarch

“A brick could be used to make music. But why not use something more humane, like your armpit.
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— Jarod Kintz

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop…

— Pete Wentz

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things…

— Kelsea Ballerini

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting…

— Robert Hilburn

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The…

— Shawn Colvin

I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when…

— El-P

Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done.…

— Tony Levin

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same…

— Sarah Dessen

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else…

— Jack Antonoff

“He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was even more persuasive…

— Maggie Stiefvater

You want to be taken seriously as an artist and not just known as 'that girl wrestler who sings.' So you want…

— Mickie James

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb…

— M. Ward

It's great for me to have something I can get excited about besides music and my kids.

— Josh Freese

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

— Max Richter

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

— Rita Ora

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

— Lee Ranaldo

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

— Brian Eno

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

— Archie Shepp

When asked about Bach, Sir Thomas Beecham replied:

— Harold Atkins

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

— Lauryn Hill

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.

— Tiffany Darwish

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

— George Benson

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

— Dave Grohl

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

— John Tesh

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

— Joe Zawinul

“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.”

— Libba Bray

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

— Alistair Cooke