Music Quotes · Page 472

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

— Chuck Berry

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

— Peter Shilton

I feel Indian music is very layered and emotional.

— Hardwell

Labels and people didn't know if i could write original music or anything.

— Gabby Barrett

It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

— Adam Anderson

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

— Don Felder

I'm different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

— Denny Hamlin

Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world.

— DeRay Mckesson

I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day…

— Phil Anselmo

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs…

— Steve Reich

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new…

— Andy Taylor

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest…

— Joseph Kosinski

“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking…

— Dick Van Dyke

Being able to use art and music not just to communicate, but to have a positive effect on people, that's significant to…

— Stephen Schwartz

“Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's…

— Ruston Kelly

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the…

— Cam Newton

All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of…

— Nelly Furtado

There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters… Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending…

— Malcolm Forbes

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically…

— Ben Gibbard

That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of…

— Slash

“The reverence accorded to the composer’s score suggests that it is a sacred object, which is not to be tampered with, whose…

— Christopher Small

I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian,…

— Rob Halford

I was at a point where I was getting up and going to work, but I was drained. Gossip Girl gave me…

— Taylor Momsen

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

— Alice Walker

Music will always have an audience, no matter how many artists there are.

— Jonita Gandhi

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

— Varg Vikernes

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

— Thom Yorke

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

— Mika

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

— Johnette Napolitano

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

— Nicholas Sparks

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

— Kathy Valentine

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

— Orianthi

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

— Gary Wright

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

— Jazmine Sullivan

Feel is not something that you learn in a book. Feel is something that you find as a musician.

— Nishan Panwar

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

— Jimi Hendrix

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

— Rob Halford