Music Quotes · Page 414

I gave up acting while I just pursued my music career.

— Ashley Walters

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

We love Bring Me The Horizon and I respect the band and their music.

— Moa Kikuchi

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

— Ziggy Marley

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

— Trombone Shorty

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

— Willie Nelson

“You deserve to be the chorus to a person’s favorite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favorite book.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people…

— Langston Hughes

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.

— Kim Kyu-jong

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in…

— Jon Gordon

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the…

— Alex Ebert

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I…

— George Arthur Buttrick

Even if the sun refused to shine, even if romance ran out of rhyme; you would still have heart until the end…

— Martina McBride

I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm…

— Yuna

“Of these five features, harmonic consistency is clearly the most culturally specific. The idea that music should consist of rapidly changing chords…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then…

— Victor Skrebneski

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and…

— Peter Kreeft

The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the…

— Gloria Estefan

“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to…

— Haruki Murakami

I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place…

— Zoe Kravitz

I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music.…

— Hugh Jackman

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

— Queen Latifah

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

— Michael Kors

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

— Jordan Knight

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

— Julia Michaels

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

— Adam Lambert

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

— Florence Welch

'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

— Chord Overstreet

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

— Devendra Banhart

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

— Glen Campbell

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

— Brownie McGhee

I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek!

— Michael Kiwanuka

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

— Joe Walsh

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

— Jason Becker