Music Quotes · Page 428

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

— Natalie Maines

“No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

— Bill Watterson

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

— Darrell Wallace Jr

Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.

— Joey Ramone

“Play your music whether you have audience or not!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

— Moon Unit Zappa

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

— Craig David

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the…

— John Oates

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

— Mike Love

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make…

— Taylor Swift

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then…

— Dalip Tahil

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and…

— Lee Konitz

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

— Pauline Oliveros

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

— John 5

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be…

— Mitski

My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh…

— Stephen Lang

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me…

— Quentin Tarantino

The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in…

— Miles Davis

“For trust was not assumed these days, even among long-standing neighbors, and one of Fire’s jobs as she gave music lessons was…

— Kristin Cashore

I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of…

— DJ QBert

What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time.…

— Nadine Shah

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on…

— Hilary Hahn

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

— Chris Martin

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

— Kaskade

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

— Nat Wolff

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

— Aulis Sallinen

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

— Dave Haywood

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

— George Gershwin

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero

At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

— The Weeknd

I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

— Kali Uchis

Music has got me to see so much of India, so many new faces.

— Jonita Gandhi

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

— Zedd

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

— Pablo Picasso

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

— Kyle Gass

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

— Dmitri Shostakovich