Music Quotes · Page 607

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

— Juanes

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

— Sonny Rollins

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

— Mitch Miller

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

— Mayer Hawthorne

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

— Carmen Electra

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”

— Carl Barât

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think…

— Robert Christgau

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

— Prince

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think…

— Olly Alexander

I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the…

— Nikka Costa

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a…

— James Hunter

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

— Morten Harket

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out…

— John Darnielle

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good…

— Jay-Z

Finding my voice has been a journey of resilience. There have been times when I've felt silenced or overlooked, but music has…

— Lola Young

“All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is…

— Ravindra Shukla

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or…

— Jay-Z

Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge…

— Lindsay Mendez

There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way,…

— Justin Adams

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of…

— James Newton Howard

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

— Tod Machover

Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.

— Lauv

Music speaks when words can't Express your felling...

— Keren Zhims

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

— Kanye West

I grew up with dance music and all of the sudden people started calling it EDM.

— Hardwell

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

— Tyler, The Creator

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

— Barbara Mandrell

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

— Kevin Shields

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.

— Torae

I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

— Frankie Avalon

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

— Delta Burke

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

— Morten Harket

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

— H. L. Mencken

“Kucheza muziki si lazima utingishe mwili kama mwendawazimu. Unaweza kucheza kwa hisia.”

— Enock Maregesi

Releasing two, fully produced music videos per month is way more than a full time job.

— Jack Conte

“Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?”

— Kristine Cuevas