Music Quotes · Page 951

Im ready for summer nights, bonfires, windows down, country music blarin and beers with friends after a hard days work.

— Anonymous

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had…

— Charley Pride

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I…

— G-Eazy

I must say when I was a kid, before I got introduced to Brando and De Niro or any of those, it…

— David Morrissey

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

— Jeremih

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat…

— Lou Reed

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents,…

— William Fitzsimmons

“Listen! Before you can fully understand the notes, dear boy, you must first understand the space you will place them in. Space…

— Victor L. Wooten

I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music...…

— Randy Newman

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space…

— Xavier Rudd

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I…

— Jon Secada

I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely…

— Ben Watt

Spotify favors hits. It's very much a meritocracy: It's not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We…

— Troy Carter

While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically…

— Brett Young

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the…

— Leon Russell

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

— Lana Del Rey

“Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a…

— Nadia Boulanger

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

— Derek Trucks

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

— Charlie Puth

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better…

— Jean Wilson

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a…

— Ray Manzarek

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that…

— Vik Muniz

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a…

— Pat Metheny

I love music, whoever makes it. Whoever makes great music in the entire world I am their fan because I love music…

— Amit Trivedi

In January 1999, I proposed an initiative to the Music Industry Forum which I called Communities In Tune. Its aim was to…

— Mick Hucknall

Music is really, like, my therapy. So anything that's pretty much music-involved gets your head in the game.

— Josie Canseco

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the…

— Kevin Bacon

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I…

— Diana Ross

I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which…

— Michael Feinstein

I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.'

— Ramin Djawadi

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music was always there on the side. I used to come home from school during weekends and perform at events.

— Jonita Gandhi

Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If…

— Julian Bream

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army…

— Michelle Shocked