Music Quotes · Page 825

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

— Brett Young

Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke.…

— Duff McKagan

Music is a very strong force when it comes to making a difference, as well as entertaining, soothing, and encouraging.

— Philip Bailey

I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.

— Shreya Ghoshal

“There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and…

— H.P. Lovecraft

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

— Paul Weller

I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change…

— Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we first signed to Loud, we had a 20-song demo. So all of those songs we wanted to put on the…

— Prodigy

I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so…

— Steven Soderbergh

In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin -…

— Michala Petri

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.…

— W. H. Davies

The one thing I won't do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It's something I tried to…

— Vidya Vox

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading…

— Rakim

Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the…

— Carl Jung

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the…

— Tim McGraw

I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians,…

— Christopher Guest

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's…

— Johnny Marr

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think…

— Matias Tellez

I wonder sometimes whether that's why I threw myself so much into music, because it was a place where I felt confident…

— Griff

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound…

— John Waters

“If music can ever restore a lost past, then this was the moment. Redemption! We do crave it. But music is different:…

— Arthur Phillips

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done…

— Kerry King

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda…

— Kimbra

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the…

— Daryl Davis

“Ambient music” is the term used today for “atmospheric” background music usually intended for relaxation or meditation.”

— Merriam-Webster

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played…

— Alan Jackson

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

— Coy Bowles

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends…

— John Oates

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

— Patrick Carney

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

— John Congleton

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that…

— Richard Ashcroft

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to…

— Jim Root

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or…

— Mary Russell Mitford

I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want…

— Soccer Mommy

I think if Elon Musk asked me to go to Mars as a musician, to sing for people, I think I might…

— Jihae

“Cat?" It was softly spoken but she heard it clearly over the music. Her head turned to see Rhys leaning against the…

— Leanne Crabtree

With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.

— Jimmy Page