Music Quotes · Page 569

“Unless you're ready to mount a cloud 'n' learn harp music, you better let go of me!”

— Charlotte McPherren

Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Dear Music, thank you for always being there for me.

— Anonymous

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

— Brian Welch

You can have energy in music and dance to it but still have soul.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

— Max Richter

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

— Lee Ranaldo

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

— Rita Ora

The positivity that I put in my music has put me on the map, has helped me to put my country even…

— Koffee

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take…

— Dweezil Zappa

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind…

— Ali Koehler

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It…

— David Thibodeau

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or…

— Grimes

I am empowered by my friends in the music industry who are other fellow black men because I see them as my…

— MNEK

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

— Mary Lou Williams

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

A dream role of mine that I'm currently talking to some people about - I'm trying to get an Aaliyah biopic made,…

— Lexi Underwood

In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank…

— Tom Petty

“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful,…

— Mary Gaitskill

I may have run out of songs to sing. I may have run out of words to say. All that I want…

— Side A

There were two things I discovered when I toured with Snoop. One was that the band was all jazz musicians. The second…

— Kamasi Washington

I reached a place where I wanted to make more music, but I didn't know what I wanted. So I stopped labeling…

— Maggie Rogers

“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the…

— Scott Anderson

I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the…

— Ed Kowalczyk

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

— Naomi Campbell

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

— John Lennon

It's great for me to have something I can get excited about besides music and my kids.

— Josh Freese

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

— Archie Shepp

When asked about Bach, Sir Thomas Beecham replied:

— Harold Atkins

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

— Brian Eno

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

— John Tesh

“I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.”

— Libba Bray

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

— Joe Zawinul

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

— Lauryn Hill

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.

— Tiffany Darwish

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

— Dave Grohl

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.

— George Benson

“Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.”

— Amit Ray