Music Quotes · Page 129

scales are the grammar of music.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Country music has the great stories.

— Etta James

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

— Danny Strong

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

— Bob Livingston

There is danger in singing someone else's song.

— Don G. Campbell

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

— Jack White

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

— Robert Plant

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

— Stella Benson

I actually always wanted to end up somewhere in music, I just didn't know what.

— Lil Xan

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

— Bob Marley

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

— Elvis Costello

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

— John Dryden

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

— Alanis Morissette

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

— Romesh Ranganathan

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole…

— Marc Almond

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for…

— Rachael Stirling

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I…

— Steven Wilson

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the…

— Fashawn

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with…

— Moby

The first time I was exposed to dance music was through my friend Noah who played me a mixtape of stuff he'd…

— Matthew Koma

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our…

— Karen Carpenter

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people…

— Brandon Boyd

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.…

— Henry Steele Commager

CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity…

— Girl Talk

Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had…

— Rebecca Goldstein

If you're choosing to put out music and be out there in the public, you have to be conscious of the fact…

— Taylor Swift

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music.…

— Tod Machover

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

I love to just be consistently playing music.

— John Popper

I hear music and my feet just start moving.

— Dick Van Dyke

Interaction is what jazz music is all about.

— Stan Getz

I remember music first artists second.

— Tina Turner

I always thought music was open to all things.

— Dawn Angelique

I'm playin' the music I like.

— Mose Allison

I can't work without music.

— Damian Loeb