Music Quotes · Page 436

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

— Aparna Sen

You write different songs when you're 16 or 17 to when you're 22 or 23.

— Luke Hemmings

“When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.”

— James Hauenstein

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

— John Steinbeck

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

— Javed Ali

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

— Noel Gallagher

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”

— Esmé Raji Codell

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

— Matt Berninger

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that…

— Brian Wilson

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really…

— Sigrid

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

— Hans Zimmer

We've always believed action speaks louder than words. I think that's helped maintain a certain aura about Sparks. People only really know…

— Russell Mael

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

— M.I.A

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are…

— Ed Sheeran

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call…

— Ricky Skaggs

I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did…

— Fetty Wap

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in…

— Kim Gordon

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,…

— John Tesh

Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a…

— John Updike

Jeanie McCarthy is the love of my life. She's the only woman who really understands me, my music, and my heart. It…

— Jimmy Scott

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American…

— Don McLean

“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they…

— Mark Nepo

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

— Ariana Grande

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

— Anonymous

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

— Richard Ashcroft

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

— Doc Watson

Music is more fun when it's collaborative, in my opinion.

— Alex Gaskarth

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

— Bonnie Raitt

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

— Melanie Martinez

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

— Moby

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

— Mary J. Blige

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

— Hunter Parrish

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

— Kin Hubbard

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

— Steve Lukather

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

— Conor Oberst

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

— Devin Townsend

“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson