Music Quotes · Page 18

I think a lot of women could be making great music but still don't feel like they're capable - in fact, I…

— Soccer Mommy

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do…

— Young Thug

I think mainstream music got its worst around 1998 when bands like Smashing Pumpkins with Adore, Marilyn Manson with Mechanical Animals and…

— Marc Broude

Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is…

— Leopold Stokowski

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

— Jay-Z

I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.

— Hozier

... another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of…

— Jeff Baxter

There are all these safety nets in pop music.

— Russell Mael

I come to America because if you're a rock 'n' roll musician you should come here every chance you get.

— Gord Downie

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

— Chino Moreno

Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and…

— Andrew Ridgeley

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras…

— Rostam Batmanglij

My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else.

— Sam Palladio

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't…

— Julia Holter

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

— Urmila Matondkar

“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then…

— Hermann Hesse

My records are not informed by whether the music is going to work live. I just kind of make the music I…

— Bonobo

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me…

— Susan Cain

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh…

— JaVale McGee

I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore…

— Justin Hayward

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make…

— Maggie Rogers

I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed…

— Bryson Tiller

The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.'

— Cyd Charisse