Music Quotes · Page 554

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

— Michael Tippett

My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.

— Christine McVie

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

— Daniel Barenboim

I listen to her heart beat because it plays my favorite song.

— Lil Wayne

I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally.

— Suki Waterhouse

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

— Haley Reinhart

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

— Luther Allison

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end…

— Atif Aslam

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song…

— Barbra Streisand

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my…

— Tom Lehrer

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the…

— Kevin Parker

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

When I found out that my mom was sneaking listening to my music, I decided to make sure that my music is…

— Flo Rida

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little…

— Zola Jesus

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain…

— Bette Midler

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music…

— Rob Pilatus

I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the…

— Kellin Quinn

I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted…

— Emeli Sande

I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of…

— Lena Waithe

As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a…

— Sam Roberts

“‎God is boundless, and so is never a boundary: God's music possesses the richness of every transition, interval, measure, variation - all…

— David Hart

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…

— Christian McBride

I never thought about making music because it has to be a hit. There are so many better singers out there who…

— Atif Aslam

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

— Christina Rossetti

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

— Conrad Hall

You might take my money, women and power but house music shall remain mine!

— Lwazi Zwane

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

— Jonny Lang

I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.

— Daniel O'Sullivan

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

— M.I.A

My new little cousin… Her name is melody Cheyenne williams

— Anonymous

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood.

— Tika Sumpter

I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.

— Kim Petras

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

— Trent Reznor

In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

— Philip Carr-Gomm

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

— Ron Carter

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

— Lapsley

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

— Marty Stuart