Music Quotes · Page 468

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

— Dave East

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

— Twyla Tharp

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

— Thia Megia

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

— Rich Mullins

We've made music to boost people up, make people happy and to inspire them.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies…

— Thomas Dolby

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because…

— Jens Lekman

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as…

— Kate Bush

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

— Georg Solti

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half…

— Andris Nelsons

Culturally, I remember listening to Salil Chowdhury's music for Malayalam films. Many Bengali actors have worked in our films, too.

— Mammootty

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

— Cole Swindell

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the…

— Anonymous

“Fifteen years ago, the cultural critic Greil Marcus wrote of Jimi's performance of our national anthem as "his great NO to the…

— Michael Lang

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I…

— Steve Martin

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he…

— Freddie Hubbard

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you…

— Luke Combs

When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about…

— Maggie Rogers

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must…

— Martin Luther

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't…

— Demi Lovato

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was…

— Brian Wilson

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

— Tom Anderson

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

— Parineeti Chopra

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

— Steven Wilson

Time to face the music armed with this great infromation.

— Coralyn

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

— Angelique Kidjo

Music inspires some feeling in you. That's the same way I think about Uber.

— Bozoma Saint John

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

— Mark Ronson

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

— Tory Lanez

I'm going to pursue music. As well as TV and film.

— Kellie Pickler

I am always listening to new music and reading about music.

— Jonas Blue

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

— Brian De Palma

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

— Lisa Ann Sandell

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

— Alessandro Michele

“Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.”

— Patti Smith

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

— Britta Phillips

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell