Music Quotes · Page 787

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions…

— Bela Fleck

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for…

— Jeremy Renner

If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for, I haven't a problem with…

— Lily Allen

The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little…

— Too Short

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't…

— Laurie Anderson

'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's…

— India Arie

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

— Trisha Yearwood

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word…

— Steve Earle

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are musicals I've enjoyed watching, but there aren't many parts in them that appeal to me. I'm a pretty good singer,…

— Michael Sheen

I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to…

— Fergie

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen…

— Roy Ayers

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place…

— Mandy Moore

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that…

— Grimes

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of…

— Dweezil Zappa

I always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I'm an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll... I'm…

— Juliette Lewis

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

— Norah Jones

“That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what…

— Sarah Vowell

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music…

— Randy Houser

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell…

— Kellie Pickler

'Ashes Of Love' has much more hot-blooded vocal than what PC Music is known for, and a much harder production than what…

— Caroline Polachek

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we…

— Shahin Najafi

College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who…

— Chris Stapleton

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit…

— George Strait

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a…

— Serj Tankian

Lifes a game that you need to play correct to the right music, dont get caught up in those in mess

— Anonymous

I've worked with so many different artists, and I'm always willing to expand and do some new fun things as long as…

— Flo Rida

“The universe resonates to certain musical vibrations. All the stars and planets revolve in harmony with it.”

— Wendy Mass

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just…

— Shankar Mahadevan

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

— Jim Dickinson

“Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.”

— John Grooters

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

— Neil Peart

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is…

— Edouard Boubat

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

— Agnes Obel

“Music can provide us the emotional vitamins that we can't get from food; without it, the life would be incomplete.”

— John Taskinsoy

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I…

— Agnes Obel