Music Quotes · Page 586

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

— St. Vincent

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

— Jeff Lynne

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

— Matthew Healy

It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.

— Ashton Irwin

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.

— Big Boi

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian.

— Stjepan Hauser

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that…

— Dwight Yoakam

“Night smelt the way Havoc’s songs sounded. It smelt of steel and rushlights and the marsh welcoming a misstep and anger souring…

— Frances Hardinge

“I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.”

— John Wesley

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way.…

— Iron & Wine

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

— Rainn Wilson

There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some…

— Ben Howard

Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people…

— Benjamin Booker

Loose Women' didn't axe me. I had started planning the tour and album and Loose Women saw my list of 40 dates.…

— Jane McDonald

I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far…

— Christian Fennesz

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in…

— Brian McKnight

I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that…

— R. Kelly

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad…

— Dhani Harrison

The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used…

— Rosanne Cash

Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the…

— Mose Allison

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift…

— Meat Loaf

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

— Kenny Chesney

And I, will swallow my pride. You're the one that I love, and I'm saying good bye.

— Say Something

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

— MC Hammer

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

— Elliott Smith

I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around.

— Volker Bertelmann

Music and sleep are the best escape root in a world of hurt and pain.

— Unkown

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

— Linda McCartney

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

— Matthew Shipp

The most difficult thing to pull off in a musical is the choreography.

— Matt Besser

I've got a band that I tour with, and they're not session musicians; they're my friends.

— Sam Fender

The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

— Nipsey Hussle

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

— Princess Nokia

A lot of people feel that 'Music Man' is a good movie musical.

— Craig Zadan

“Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.”

— The Unknown

A good song can be produced in several different genres.

— Wendy Starland