Music Quotes · Page 433

“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.”

— Delano Johnson

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

— Hilaire Belloc

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

— Van Morrison

I don't think many people get second chances when it comes to the music scene.

— Ronnie Radke

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

— Justin Adams

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

— Austin Carlile

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

— Grimes

“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”

— Steven Tyler

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have…

— Shaggy

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives…

— Nicole Scherzinger

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they…

— Mara Wilson

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for…

— Mick Jagger

When I was growing up, it was the religious conservatives that had the moral panic about music and swear words.

— Tim Pool

“Out here, there was salt on the wind itself that fell on your skin like rain. You could taste it. Out here…

— Cynthia Voigt

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you…

— Dar Williams

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

— Rita Ora

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process…

— Alan Menken

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

It was a major turning point in my career when Anup Jalota invited me to accompany him on his various world tours.…

— Jeet Gannguli

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the…

— Steve Earle

I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records…

— Robert Barry

The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace…

— Cecil Williams

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

My family didn't push me into the music industry; they just wanted me to do something I loved.

— Sigrid

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

— Chino Moreno

Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.

— Olly Alexander

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

— John Badham

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

— Deepti Naval

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

— Michel Petrucciani

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

— Scarface

Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.

— Elaine Welteroth

When it feels like the lyrics to the song you're listening to were written just for you..

— Music

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

— Ian Astbury

Music is an escape. It's like going into a time machine, it takes you wherever you want to go.

— IsiahNunn

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

— Patricia Barber

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

— Janet Jackson

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

— Ben Katchor