Music Quotes · Page 413

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

— Kathy Valentine

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

— Daryl Hall

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

— Dan Bejar

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake…

— Charles Bukowski

I strongly believe that music comes from the soul and no amount of technology can 'manufacture' that.

— Ankit Tiwari

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my…

— Grace Jones

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to…

— Ted Poe

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of…

— LL Cool J

Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat…

— Alan Menken

But as for Hammer, i've always done the type of music that's entertaining and fun. From 'it's all good' all the way…

— MC Hammer

“Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.”

— Ann Patchett

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what…

— Elliot Cowan

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked…

— Tim Burton

Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be…

— Stephen Schwartz

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man…

— Tom Waits

Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way…

— Wolfgang Langewiesche

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw…

— David Guetta

There's a lot of musicians and songwriters who as soon as they ascend into being professional, they elect to lead the life…

— CMAT

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and…

— Lou Barlow

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

— Gregory Orr

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

— Boyd K. Packer

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

— Paul Rodgers

My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.

— Badshah

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.

— Everlast

“Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

— Lesley Garrett

Okay! We need to take it back in time, when music made us all unite,

— Jessie J

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

— Armaan Malik

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

— Robert Fulghum

I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.

— Vanessa Morgan