Music Quotes · Page 478

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

— Glen Campbell

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

— Devendra Banhart

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

— Florence Welch

'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

— Chord Overstreet

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

— Adam Lambert

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

— Jordan Knight

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

— Julia Michaels

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living…

— Robin Williams

All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.

— Jeff Buckley

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I…

— Vince Gill

“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough…

— Carson McCullers

Songs like 'Party Hard' were written to make people feel in touch with their greatest potential.

— Andrew W.K

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it…

— Nina Simone

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music,…

— Gladys Knight

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

“Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something…

— Mary-Jean Harris

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty…

— Alan Menken

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of…

— Tim Crane

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing…

— Black Francis

I feel like there are a lot of artists that you could put together that you love, but it doesn't necessarily mean…

— Yukimi Nagano

Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at…

— Lawrence English

The reality of the music industry is that I was a 22-year-old college graduate who was able to walk into boardrooms and…

— Maggie Rogers

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

— Michael Kors

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

— Queen Latifah

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

— Willie Nelson

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

— Ziggy Marley

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

— Trombone Shorty

We love Bring Me The Horizon and I respect the band and their music.

— Moa Kikuchi

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.

— Vanessa Morgan

I gave up acting while I just pursued my music career.

— Ashley Walters

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

— Robert Fulghum

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

— Armaan Malik

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

Okay! We need to take it back in time, when music made us all unite,

— Jessie J