Music Quotes · Page 471

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

— Christopher Ricks

Just like music evokes emotion, so can garments.

— Donatella Versace

I'll never be a music director... I'm not cut out for that.

— KK

As my kids are growing up, I continue to write songs for them.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

— Chris Lowe

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

— Spike Jonze

You gotta make your own music, even if no one sings along.

— Crap

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

— Chip Esten

The talent we have in our country is boundless, and we are going to do our best to keep releasing new music…

— Bhushan Kumar

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you…

— Wynton Marsalis

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the…

— Brian McKnight

“I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted…

— Jennifer Paynter

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh,…

— Stephen Sondheim

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

— Priscilla Ahn

My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others.

— Emily Weiss

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The…

— Al Green

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending…

— Nile Rodgers

COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such…

— John Balance

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted…

— Daniel Johns

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on…

— Michael Kiwanuka

You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A…

— Anne Archer

When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling,…

— Roisin Murphy

So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic…

— Judith Butler

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because…

— Jose Saramago

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

— Keith Richards

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

— Wendell Berry

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

— Sufjan Stevens

I wanna thank you for supporting me and my music and defending me from haters.

— Justin Bieber

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

— Jay Sean

Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy.

— Mya

As long as it excites me is what is important and pop music excites me the most.

— Naughty Boy

Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.

— Lil Xan

“Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvre is like music with instruments.”

— Salam Al Shereida

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

— Bobby Sherman

Life is like a beutiful melody,only the lyrics are messed up.

— Ally Mbululo

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin

“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”

— Matty Healy

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach