Music Quotes · Page 416

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

— John Densmore

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

— John Scofield

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

— Michael Jackson

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

— Gordon Getty

“Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.”

— Patience Johnson

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

— Brian Eno

I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love…

— Rashida Jones

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible.…

— Graham Phillips

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

— Jess Row

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like…

— Victoria Legrand

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

— Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up in Spanish Town, it was my whole little world. Culturally, everything I know came from there - school, church,…

— Koffee

I just love dancing. When the music is really hitting my soul, then I really want to get into it.

— Charles Bradley

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

— Perry Farrell

“Holy spirits, you walk up there in the light, on soft earth. Shining god-like breezes touch upon you gently, as a woman's…

— Friedrich Holderlin

“Yeah', said Fats. 'Fucking and dying. That's it, innit? Fucking and dying. That's life.' 'Trying to get a fuck and trying not…

— J. K. Rowling

Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular…

— Don Alias

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is…

— Grandmaster Flash

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different…

— Dar Williams

Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with…

— James Dean Bradfield

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way.…

— Porter Robinson

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human…

— Abraham Maslow

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

— John Mayer

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

— Lee DeWyze

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

— Sun Ra

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

— William Zinsser

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

“If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.”

— Anonymous

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

— Michael Jackson

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

— Amos Oz

I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

— Dan Hill

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

— Ron Mael

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

— Pimp C

I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

— Ville Valo