Music Quotes · Page 999

Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to…

— Imogen Heap

“Happiness is elusive, for sure.But like love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that…

— James Righton

Every album I release I find out more about myself, my true colours and flavour in music. It's a part of my…

— Jackson Wang

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon…

— Stromae

“Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.”

— Jan Swafford

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety…

— David Byrne

Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it.…

— Melissa Febos

I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to…

— Bertie Carvel

“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and…

— James Joyce

I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I…

— Eric Hutchinson

I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn't motivate me…

— Demetri Martin

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his…

— Karl Kristian Flores

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they…

— Pat Boone

I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was…

— Michael Giacchino

I'm full of ideas and general crackling chemistry and I can read the 'score' of a comedy as though it's a musical…

— Maureen Lipman

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

— Freddie Highmore

Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them…

— Trombone Shorty

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just…

— Mike Stud

“Well, they don’t make their music just to pass the time,” says Jenny, grinning. “Got to want something to sing about it,…

— Emma Donoghue

Music is something all people could relate to. It can make you feel sad, happy, or excited. Music is really people telling…

— Anonymous

Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are…

— Rex Orange County

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture…

— Stephen Mallinder

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different…

— Charlemagne Palestine

Fuck it. I recorded my solo song for fun. Who wants it? I'm just gonna put a download link up. The song…

— Danny Worsnop

I never have a genre in mind when I'm making music because I just like to be free. I feel that placing…

— Ravyn Lenae

I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam'ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all…

— Cam'ron

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

— Cass McCombs

But I love listening to my own songs and I know they're working well if I'm not thinking too much about them…

— Michelle Zauner

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

— James Martineau

The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

— Joe Goddard

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give…

— Aaron Copland

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always…

— Plato

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and…

— Shawn Amos

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same…

— Elvis Presley

There is music in silence, and in silence one finds the truth. So if you seek the truth, spend time alone with…

— John Lars Zwerenz

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more…

— Igor Stravinsky

“In this meaningless universe, we need saviours to cling to the existence and music is one of our best saviour!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan