Music Quotes · Page 406

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

— Mayer Hawthorne

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

— Carmen Electra

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

— Juanes

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

— Mitch Miller

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

— Sonny Rollins

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

— Maya Beiser

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

— Laura Bell Bundy

I have learnt music from my mom and 'Mission Mangal' is lead by women, so I feel extremely special composing this song.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the…

— Peter Gabriel

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

— Raekwon

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a…

— Perez Hilton

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious…

— Zacky Vengeance

I would love to do something with many artists, you know: Fantasia, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, J.Lo, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson. There's…

— Big Freedia

I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel…

— Frankie Cosmos

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me…

— Marion Cotillard

“when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays,…

— Anonymous

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of…

— Joe Satriani

Some of my favourite things about Deftones are the dynamics. Yes, we're a heavy band, but we're not just in-your-face aggro the…

— Chino Moreno

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well.…

— Jay-Z

We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren't that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how…

— John Rzeznik

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

— Kanye West

Music speaks when words can't Express your felling...

— Keren Zhims

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

— Tyler, The Creator

I grew up with dance music and all of the sudden people started calling it EDM.

— Hardwell

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

— Tod Machover

“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”

— Carl Barât

Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.

— Lauv

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.

— Torae

I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

— Frankie Avalon

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

— Morten Harket

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

— Delta Burke

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

— Barbara Mandrell

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

— Kevin Shields

“Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?”

— Kristine Cuevas

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

— Hamsalekha