Music Quotes · Page 477

“Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.”

— Patience Johnson

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

— Gordon Getty

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

— Michael Jackson

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

— Ilaiyaraaja

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

— John Scofield

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

— John Densmore

Your current favorite song is the song that represents how you feel currently.

— Melania

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

— Maya Rudolph

“she cleaned, scrubbing to the staticky rhythm of Hawaiian music playing from her silver clock radio.”

— Janet Mock

It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a…

— Ashley Thomas

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob…

— Clive Davis

We got lucky because we both happened to land TV shows. It was easy to ride that wave as long as possible…

— AJ Michalka

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for…

— Ville Valo

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

— Martin Mull

I have a history, and I am proud of my legacy as a songwriter, all of the songs that I've brought forth…

— Rodney Crowell

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't…

— Ghostface Killah

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and…

— Eric Clapton

All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race…

— Pete Seeger

“He shouldn't want to see her, but he did. He shouldn’t want to know how she felt, how she tasted, but he…

— Elizabeth Morgan

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we…

— Shura

“A few minutes passed wherein the truck hummed, country music twanged on the radio, and I read the same paragraph in my…

— Jennifer Echols

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics…

— Ned Rorem

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the…

— James Wolcott

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are…

— Ernest Gold

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

— John Sebastian

I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.

— Everlast

“Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.

— Badshah

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

— Paul Rodgers

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

— Boyd K. Packer

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

— Gregory Orr

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

— Dan Bejar

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

— Daryl Hall

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser