Music Quotes · Page 590

I think music is one of the reasons we fell in love with movies.

— Matt Duffer

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

— Christopher Guest

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

— Ludovico Einaudi

We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

— Gary Rossington

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

— Luciano Pavarotti

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

— Emily Dickinson

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

— George MacDonald

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.

— Sam Smith

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake…

— Jason Schwartzman

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without…

— Stephen Malkmus

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is…

— George Gershwin

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let…

— Rick Wright

I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

— Charles Kelley

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and…

— Kinky Friedman

It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much.…

— Gwen Stefani

Tame Impala's music revisits a time when guitar effects and studio tricks were music's newest frontiers; when rock was barely old enough…

— Anthony Fantano

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to…

— Vikram Seth

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and…

— Young Jeezy

I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're…

— Margo Price

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at…

— Bruce Springsteen

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting…

— Anonymous

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that…

— Sufjan Stevens

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

— Todd Rundgren

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

— Joss Stone

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I had an uncle who adored Al Green. He was white, but he only listened to black music.

— Tricky

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

— Freddie Hubbard

“I knew what song was next and I knew who I was dancing with. My wife.”

— Karina Halle

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

— Dick Dale

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

“It is the space between the notes that makes the music”

— Achille-Claude Debussy

That awkward moment when you sing the wrong part of a song with confidence.

— Cuts And Scars

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

— Glen Campbell

“Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home”

— Leonard Cohen

I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.

— Trentemøller

I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.

— Finneas

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

— Drake