Music Quotes · Page 495

We are literally touring the world, and people are listening to my music.

— Adore Delano

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

— Steve Earle

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

— Anonymous

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

— Rick Springfield

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

— Matt Bomer

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

— Arjun Janya

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

— Michael Ondaatje

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself.…

— Kevin Eubanks

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to…

— Grimes

I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing…

— Arijit Singh

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was…

— Sean Hayes

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

— Tod Machover

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

— Kurt Cobain

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If…

— will.i.am

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could…

— Walter Murch

I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a…

— Girl Talk

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of…

— Anonymous

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being…

— Erin McKeown

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,…

— John Maus

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody…

— Sammy Hagar

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was…

— Alejo Carpentier

Thank you music for always being there, even when no one was.

— Beeru Singh

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

— Beyonce Knowles

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

— Willie Nelson

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

— Eric Church

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,

— Townes Van Zandt

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

— Brandy Norwood

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

— Bill Walton

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

— Nicolas Cage

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

— Eric Dolphy

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

— Bryan Clay

“Songs carry memories almost as reliably and poignantly as smells.”

— Glenn Haybittle

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

I will certainly be making music as long as I live.

— Goldie

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

— Machine Gun Kelly