Music Quotes · Page 833

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

— Muriel Barbery

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

I just feel like that '90s era was pretty special from all aspects. Whether it was hip-hop, R&B, it was a lot…

— Bobby Wagner

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind…

— Ali Koehler

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It…

— David Thibodeau

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or…

— Grimes

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

— Mary Lou Williams

“Easy come, easy go, That's just how you live, oh, Take, take, take it all, But you never give. Should've known you…

— Bruno Mars

Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to…

— Cliff Asness

“He missed everything about her, from her hot temper to her sassy retorts to the way her breath always seemed to catch…

— Crista McHugh

“My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn’t rewind…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly…

— Rick Moranis

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down…

— Al Jarreau

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you…

— Clay Aiken

I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist…

— Amine

I am empowered by my friends in the music industry who are other fellow black men because I see them as my…

— MNEK

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I…

— J. J. Cale

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

— Noah Cyrus

“Akiko was in a store that sold memories, a mishmash of tawdry emancipation bottled into faked vulnerability and fingernails from forgotten musicians…

— Peter Tieryas

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

— Cassandra Wilson

“Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]”

— Igor Stravinsky

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated…

— Joni Mitchell

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

— Robert Smith

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been…

— Michelle Shocked

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people,…

— Michael Franti

I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.

— Shankar Mahadevan

“The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only…

— Hafsa Shah

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

— Keri Hilson

Just look at the name of Kanye's label: G.O.O.D. Music. That's what it's all about, creating good music.

— Mannie Fresh

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or…

— Ben Folds

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

— Michel Legrand

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take…

— Dweezil Zappa

The positivity that I put in my music has put me on the map, has helped me to put my country even…

— Koffee

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling…

— Michael Clarke Duncan

“As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company…

— Truman Capote

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and…

— Andrew Bird