Music Quotes · Page 613

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

— Boosie

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

— Boz Scaggs

Okay! We need to take it back in time, when music made us all unite,

— Jessie J

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

— Lesley Garrett

I gave up acting while I just pursued my music career.

— Ashley Walters

I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.

— Vanessa Morgan

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

— Paul Young

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what…

— Lemmy

I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great.

— Sterling Knight

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

— Larry Norman

Listening to music is like the best thing in the world, but writing those songs makes my feelings come out

— Shar-rae

Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he…

— Raftaar

Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the…

— Yehudi Menuhin

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for…

— Thomas Browne

The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of…

— Steve Aoki

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it…

— Frank Zappa

I had always dreamed of being involved in a job where I could do anything related to animals and nature. A vet…

— Tarkan

Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t…

— Marcus Miller

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you…

— Laura Nyro

“Amy turned to Nellie. "Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?" The au pair was wary. "What kind of…

— Gordon Korman

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for…

— Lady Gaga

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

— Armaan Malik

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

— Robert Fulghum

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

— Trombone Shorty

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

— Ziggy Marley

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

— Willie Nelson

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

— Queen Latifah

We love Bring Me The Horizon and I respect the band and their music.

— Moa Kikuchi

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

— Adam Lambert

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

— Jordan Knight

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

— Julia Michaels

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

— Devendra Banhart

'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

— Chord Overstreet

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

— Florence Welch