Music Quotes · Page 479

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

— Lesley Garrett

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

— Roger Sessions

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

— Umberto Boccioni

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

— Victoria Justice

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

— Boz Scaggs

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

— Boosie

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

— Tori Amos

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines…

— Al Jarreau

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

— Victor Borge

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat…

— Damien Chazelle

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know…

— Christopher Guest

As artists, we evolve, and certain music speaks to us a certain way. I've always subscribed to: whatever the music is telling…

— B-Real

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would…

— Charlotte Alington Barnard

Justin Tranter is an incredible queer voice in pop music and he's writing for Justin Bieber: it's genius.

— Olly Alexander

I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural…

— Jain

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty…

— Eric San

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed Get along with the voices inside of my head You're trying to save…

— Eminem Featuring Rihanna

If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings…

— George Perle

“Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple…

— E.B. White

“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard…

— Ellen Kaplan

I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not…

— Brett Dennen

The person on the shrine is myself. I listen to my own music constantly. I made a whole other record already. I…

— Willis Earl Beal

Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people…

— Franklin Foer

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

— Miles Davis

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

— Joe Satriani

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

— Bryan Hayes

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

— Himesh Reshammiya

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

— Dave Navarro

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

— John Muir

I don't need my fans to buy my music. My music is free, basically.

— KRS-One

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

— Adele

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

— Tori Amos

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

— George Bernard Shaw

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

— David Ogden Stiers

If you're think you're alone, put on my music cause imma be there for you

— Anonymous

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

“Don't let them break you... don't let them tell you who you are”

— Laura Jane Grace

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby