Music Quotes · Page 546

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

— Troy Carter

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

— Adam Ant

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

— Josh Groban

Music gives us hope when we think that there is none...

— Anonymous

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

— Kip Winger

I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.

— Ghostface Killah

Listening to country music as a kid allowed my imagination to run wild.

— Jessica Mauboy

The trouble with life is theres no background music.

— Anonymous

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

— Van Dyke Parks

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time…

— Moby

The thing about rock & roll, and the black leather biker jacket - it automatically creates an idea about what that person…

— Rob Halford

A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where…

— Manu Chao

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

— Dolly Parton

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna…

— Matthew Ramsey

“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.”

— Pete Townshend

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so…

— Duke Ellington

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I…

— William S. Burroughs

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record…

— Janelle Monae

If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying…

— Stefon Harris

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not…

— Aldo Leopold

“When she whirled to protest, he picked her up and took the stairs two at a time. The giggle as she clutched…

— Eve Langlais

“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous…

— Zeena Schreck

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make…

— Boots Riley

We didn't want it to be about Mickey and Minnie being married. It was about Wayne and Russi being married. We had…

— Russi Taylor

If u know what this says write back the song it is out of

— Destiny Meador

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

I play music for people all over the world. It's a huge privilege.

— Kristian Nairn

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

— Yoko Shimomura

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

— Johnny Flynn

I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

— Clairo

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

— Duncan Sheik

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

— Andrae Crouch

I do love to dance, and that's fun, but I will never stop writing my quiet, sensitive songs.

— Alison Sudol

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

— Aaron Watson

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

— Maxwell

“So baby, if you say you want me to drive, to KFC”

— Niall Horan

I love music because it's the only thing that hasn't walked away from me when I needed it most.

— Nishan Panwar

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

— Joe Cocker

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

— G-Dragon