Music Quotes · Page 598

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

— Wes Montgomery

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

— Dwight Yoakam

Happy people listen to the music, sad people listen to the lyrics.

— Anmol Andore

You could keep going back to BLACKPINK's music because it can never bore you.

— Jennie

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

— Jim Jarmusch

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

Im just trying to be a creator in among all this shit thats going on. I just want to get my music…

— Dr Dre

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try…

— Moby

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's…

— Jon Landau

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit.…

— Anne Graham Lotz

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can…

— Phoebe Robinson

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and…

— Raheem DeVaughn

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the…

— George Shearing

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave…

— Graham Parker

When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to…

— Jonathan Meiburg

I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early…

— Yusef Lateef

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical…

— Lauren Oliver

I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew…

— Will Oldham

“I settle for a radio station that’s currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice…

— Mark Capell

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all…

— William Bolcom

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out…

— John Hughes

Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched…

— David Archuleta

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

— James Taylor

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

— Michel Petrucciani

Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.

— Elaine Welteroth

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

— Scarface

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

— John Badham

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

— Deepti Naval

Music is an escape. It's like going into a time machine, it takes you wherever you want to go.

— IsiahNunn

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

— Ian Astbury

When it feels like the lyrics to the song you're listening to were written just for you..

— Music

When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

— G-Dragon

“The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.”

— Deborah Curtis

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

— Patricia Barber

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

— Janet Jackson

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

— Ben Katchor