Music Quotes · Page 412

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach

“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”

— Matty Healy

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

— Bobby Sherman

Life is like a beutiful melody,only the lyrics are messed up.

— Ally Mbululo

“Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvre is like music with instruments.”

— Salam Al Shereida

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people…

— Thomas Mapfumo

Make music from your heart, even if it's experimental or not really common, try it out, it can only get you more…

— Hardwell

As a producer, I have always made music to create memories and as a DJ, I've always been keen to share those…

— Hardwell

It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that…

— Michael Cera

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

— Bruce Springsteen

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't…

— Hans Zimmer

I really want a relationship where we can act like idiots, talk about the most random stuff, share music and never get…

— Anonymous

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

— Nas

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a…

— Joe Pass

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not…

— Henry David Thoreau

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or…

— C. V. Raman

I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause…

— Francis Dunnery

It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the…

— Jonathan Adelstein

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't…

— Smokey Robinson

The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility…

— William Bolitho

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all…

— Zaytoven

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

— Bruno Mars

“Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.”

— Stephen Chbosky

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

— Ledisi

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.

— Steven Tyler

I think the key to the success of a music video lies in its concept and the overall look.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

— Simon Van Booy

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

— Tina Yothers

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

“So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.”

— Mumford & Sons

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

— Rob Halford

Feel is not something that you learn in a book. Feel is something that you find as a musician.

— Nishan Panwar

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

— Jimi Hendrix

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

— Jazmine Sullivan

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

— Gary Wright

The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

— Orianthi