Music Quotes · Page 571

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

— Jan Hammer

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

— Rodney Atkins

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

— Angela Kinsey

Being a musician is quite cerebral - there's a lot of sitting around.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

— Lauren Mayberry

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

— Tod Machover

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

I just feel like that '90s era was pretty special from all aspects. Whether it was hip-hop, R&B, it was a lot…

— Bobby Wagner

That amazing moment when you hear a song you haven't heard in years and you still know every word.

— Anonymous

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

— Caitlin Rose

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's…

— Brendon Urie

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

— W.A. Mathieu

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a…

— Mohit Chauhan

For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just…

— Tristan Prettyman

It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led…

— Kyp Malone

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or…

— Artur Schnabel

“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing…

— Adam M. Grant

Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.…

— David Bennun

“Boy you got my heartbeat running away, beating like a drum and it's coming your way..can't you hear that boom, badoom,boom,boom, badoom,…

— Nicki Minaj

Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs…

— Constance Hale

“She saw the London of the future. Not the vision popular just then: a soaring whirl of machinery in motion, of moving…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

— Kaley Cuoco

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.

— Ramin Djawadi

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

— Matt Skiba

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

— Chance The Rapper

Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

— Amit Ray

Ive achieved basically all of the goals by the grace of God that I wanted to in music.

— LL Cool J

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

— George Lois

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

— Natalie Portman

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

— Al Yankovic

Them boys will steal your radio and the music will still be playing! -Si

— Duck Dynasty

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

— Rex Orange County

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

Bob Dylan, I'd say, is probably my favorite musician.

— Jake Johnson

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

— Simon Rattle

I'm all about cardio and high-intensity music... Anything with music, really.

— Josie Canseco