Music Quotes · Page 527

Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night

— Rumi

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

— Christian Lacroix

No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.

— Chloe Kohanski

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

— Mike Stoller

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

— James Mercer

I try to record music that people can relate to.

— Jason Aldean

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

— Brian May

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

— Jared Leto

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is…

— Carla Bley

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do…

— Stephen Sondheim

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to…

— Nina Simone

Whenever I work with people who are nonclassical artists, I kind of get a kick in the pants. I think, 'How can…

— Hilary Hahn

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

— Iwan Rheon

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had…

— Scott Adams

I just want people to hear my music and feel good, go to the club, dance, have fun, and get home safe...…

— Mustard

I'd rather be creative and be artistic and be able to play intricate music that moves and really takes you on a…

— Jim Root

I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it…

— Justin Bieber

I got into music around the age of eight years old, and I think the reason why was because I discovered the…

— MO

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front…

— Todd Lowe

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they…

— Dave Grohl

Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like…

— Chance The Rapper

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I…

— Cole Swindell

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in…

— Lorde

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

— Adam Granduciel

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

— Peter Jackson

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

— Robin Williams

Here's to the kids who listen to music to escape the world.

— Anonymous

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

— Mike Figgis

Smoking pot is illegal, but then again so is most of the music on your iPod.

— Latest

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

— Tom Petty

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

— Austin O'Malley

I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

— Mija

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

— Hans Zimmer

“Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

— John McLaughlin

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

— John Grant

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

— Andrea Bocelli

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

— Gabriella Wilson

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

— William Golding