Music Quotes · Page 859

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if…

— Dhani Harrison

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something…

— Danger Mouse

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound…

— Louise Erdrich

I'd like to be a professional baseball player that's always been a big ambition of mine. I'd also like to try my…

— Ken Wahl

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let…

— Rick Wright

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

— Freddie Gibbs

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP…

— George Michael

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd…

— Miranda Hart

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and…

— Jorja Smith

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism…

— Lee Siegel

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo,…

— Christian Kane

I definitely prefer things to be dark, I definitely prefer things to not be particularly obvious. I like a lot of mystery…

— John Congleton

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where…

— Phillip C. Schlechty

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an…

— Annie Lennox

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and…

— Kinky Friedman

I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

— Charles Kelley

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what…

— Dave Grohl

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

— R. Kelly

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

— Rebecca Romijn

You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but…

— Ian Gillan

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just…

— Black Thought

I set out to make music people enjoy, but it is really cool that it is helping people get through.

— Tom Walker

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

— Elsa Maxwell

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was…

— Robert Wyatt

I just think it's so nice that naturally all my siblings and my father and I have our own taste in music.

— Brandi Cyrus

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country…

— Chris Hillman

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

— Joe Hill

“In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.”

— Amit Ray

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.

— Sam Smith

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without…

— Stephen Malkmus

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake…

— Jason Schwartzman

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is…

— George Gershwin

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and…

— Misty Copeland

The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

— Jac Holzman

You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and…

— Eminem

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever…

— Mitch Hedberg