Music Quotes · Page 484

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

— Shaun Ryder

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

— Rick Springfield

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

— Michael Tippett

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

— Josh Billings

“I think there ought to be a little music here: hum, hum.”

— Mary Oliver

John Lydon must be more famous for his efforts on behalf of dairy products than his music.

— David Hepworth

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

— Bad Bunny

“Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.”

— Damien Rice

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

— Tom Conti

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

— Mura Masa

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try…

— Yanni

I always have to change the song I'm playing to something less embarrassing before someone gets into my car.

— Anonymous

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

— Gord Downie

Well, I'm just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions,…

— Caroline Polachek

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why…

— Justin Timberlake

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only…

— Jorja Smith

Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God…

— Pope Benedict XVI

... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got…

— Keith Richards

My mom is very heavily school-focused and is more of a nerd. She signed us up for any art stuff we could…

— Katy O'Brian

Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of…

— Michael Kiwanuka

If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something.…

— Sammy Cahn

It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just…

— Clairo

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music…

— Theophilus London

Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it…

— Josh Garrels

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

— Archie Shepp

Baby you light up my world like nobody else I whisper as I turn my laptop brightness up.

— Anonymous

I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.

— Van Hunt

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

— R-Truth

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

— Nick Rhodes

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

— Adnan Sami

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music.

— Kamasi Washington

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.

— Bob Marley

I'm not a jukebox. You can't expect a certain song for me to come and play.

— Matt Rife

“A million love songs later, we still adore the sound of nostalgia.”

— Eve Barlow

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

— Rod Stewart

It's always the theme that defines the songs and background score of any film.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

— Porter Robinson

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

— Joey Comeau