Music Quotes · Page 530

I usually spend my weekends working on my music and videos.

— Jack Conte

If I wasn’t making music I would probably be in the woods with a big deer….Talking to myself.

— Jared Leto

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.

— Jamie Eason

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.

— Craig David

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

Music is the one place where you can lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

— Nishan Panwar

Music is life, it's a reflection of what I go through.

— Anonymous

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!

— Nadia Boulanger

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be…

— Ornette Coleman

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take…

— C.S. Lewis

I never wanted to be a movie star because it takes up too much of your time. I prefer the style of…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic…The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or…

— Derek Bailey

I just love to see the crowd reactions when I drop certain songs. There's some songs that you just know are going…

— Jax Jones

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music…

— DJ Shadow

I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

— Rosalia

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

— Yolanda Adams

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other…

— Kacey Musgraves

“Skotos performed music in two different genres. When he wasn’t singing about love, his music fell in the genre I can only…

— Darinne Paciotti

Professionally, I'm proud that Glassjaw has gotten to this moment, and that Justin Beck and I are making another record and some…

— Daryl Palumbo

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that…

— Elvis Costello

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music…

— Chadwick Boseman

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics,…

— Rod Stewart

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since…

— Anton Yelchin

As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable…

— Eric Hernandez

I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.

— Brent Faiyaz

“And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn’t on.”

— Stephen Chbosky

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

— Martha Reeves

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

— Ravi Shankar

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

— Scott Borchetta

“I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect.”

— Ross Lynch

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

— El-P

For me, being in a car listening to music has always been my one spot to think.

— Petra Collins

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

— Graham Nash

It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

— Kevin Parker

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

— Robert Jordan

“I wanna thank you for making all the love songs mean something again”

— Neil Hilborn

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

— Hans Zimmer

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

— Alex Lifeson

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

— John Cage

I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

— Kyle Parker