Music Quotes · Page 808

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

— Jordin Sparks

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

— Lee Ranaldo

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have…

— Larenz Tate

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do,…

— Brian Chippendale

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound…

— Joshua Bell

I actually am a country music fan. I listen to a lot of Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris and…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

If composing music is like going to the gym in the morning, acting is like an additional session of yoga. They don't…

— Vijay Antony

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots…

— Kate Voegele

In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and…

— Trombone Shorty

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at…

— Chet Faker

Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and…

— Randy Newman

I want music to really unite people, more than the way a pop single unites people. I want to unite people through…

— Bibi Bourelly

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and…

— Vito Acconci

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new…

— Terence McKenna

“When slow songs do play, people joke that you should be able to fit "the standard works" between you and your partner.…

— Elna Baker

I listen to music as if it's spoken-word poetry. I'm a lyric-driven songwriter, so it's been a learning process to focus on…

— Olivia Rodrigo

You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it…

— Anna Kendrick

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on…

— Chad Smith

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I…

— Leopold Stokowski

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.

— Omarion

What I've found is that a lot of people in the media industry tend to use Macs because they're so good for…

— Jay Sean

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into…

— Nicky Romero

I've never written songs, I've never brought any songs to System, but as far as arranging, I've always had arrangement ideas.

— John Dolmayan

“Miranda's mom had taught her that while eyes were important, music was the real window to someone's soul.”

— Gwenda Bond

Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no…

— Ry Cooder

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what…

— Chuck Mangione

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at…

— Bazzi

“I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you…

— Leila Sales

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

— Slash

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a…

— Tiesto

Too many rockers put on the leather pants and shirt first. But if you write good songs, the pants and shirt will…

— John Rzeznik

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico,…

— Bad Bunny

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

— Bobby McFerrin

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was…

— Chanel West Coast

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

— Rahki

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

— Jimmy Carl Black

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy…

— Jay Park