Music Quotes · Page 482

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

— Gary Wright

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

— Eddie Harris

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

— Eddie Vedder

I suppose music can be seen as quite a laddish, boys-y thing sometimes.

— Fearne Cotton

SXSW is all about the music and the collaboration.

— Martie Maguire

Music videos are another outlet for me to show my many moods.

— Quincy Brown

I grew up listening to all music, not just country.

— Mickie James

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

— John French Sloan

I turn complaining into music! I'm thinking I might have invented a new style. I call it 'cantankerous rock.'

— Paul Gilbert

YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to…

— Chad Hurley

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold…

— Erykah Badu

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean,…

— Steve Jones

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

— John Lydon

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

— Joseph Haydn

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words…

— Yelawolf

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the…

— Dierks Bentley

“Food can make you think […] just like music or…or words on a page. I believe we don’t understand that, because we’ve…

— Philip Kazan

... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of…

— Toby Keith

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used…

— Don Bluth

I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I…

— A. R. Rahman

“Tell me have you ever wanted someone so much it hurts? Your lips keep trying to speak, but you just can't find…

— Lady Antebellum

The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on,…

— Paul Weller

When I was in Cardiff, playing with the National Orchestra of Wales, they said they get letters from people complaining if they're…

— Bill Bailey

“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths,…

— Zoe Heller

This is all I wanna do; I want to entertain. I want to make music. I want do film.

— Jordan Fisher

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

— Wynonna Judd

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

— Kim Gordon

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

— Angel Olsen

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

— Tom Petty

I make music in my room, so it doesn't matter too much where I am, as long as I'm workin'.

— Snow Tha Product

“Not all musicians believe in God, but they all believe in Johann Sebastian Bach”

— Mauricio Kagel

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

— Diana Gabaldon

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

— Javed Ali

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

— Jimmy Iovine

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

— Francoise Sagan

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

— Simon Raymonde

I'm trying to fill the gaping hole in my chest with music.

— Anonymous

Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

— Sonu Nigam

“It was like trying not to get a song stuck in your head.”

— Cecilia Vinesse