Music Quotes · Page 458

We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

— Dusty Hill

“It only becomes art if it touches other people.”

— Andreas Eschbach

That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

— Trombone Shorty

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

— Flume

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

— Mary Hunter Austin

Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.

— Erik Satie

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

Like carnivores to carnal pleasures as are we to desperate measures.

— Harvey Danger

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion…

— Sean Berdy

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music…

— Lauryn Hill

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again…

— Franz Liszt

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's…

— K-Maro

Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.

— Daniel Levitin

When you make an album, you have a team of musicians you work with; when you're a director and you're creating a…

— Jihae

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once…

— Scott Borchetta

You see further behind you, and you get a chance to see further down the road. I could make a project come…

— Mr. Carmack

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to…

— Yoshida Kenko

I remember, when I was a kid, my dad would subscribe to the BMG Music Club, and we got that initial 12…

— Josh Gondelman

“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor…

— Jonathan Edwards

I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I…

— Billy Sherwood

We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay…

— Chuck D

“Ubiquitous listening makes music virtually imperceptible, and any music is welcome. For so long as the semblance of vital activity that a…

— Eldritch Priest

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can…

— Jean Louisa Kelly

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

— Pete Seeger

If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.

— James Arthur

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

— Mark Lanegan

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

— Marc Martel

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

— Joel Grey

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

— Norman Wisdom

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

— Scott Weiland

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

— Peter Capaldi

You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.

— Robert Trujillo

“I am sure that music was never meant to sound this harsh, this painful.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

I don't drink any more so I switched my obsession to musicals.

— Finty Williams

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

— Sissy Spacek

Shawty's like a melody in my head. That I can't keep out.

— Iyaz

“Be still, for you may the hauntingly familiar melody of a mermaid.”

— Heather McLaren

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

— Bill Anderson