Music Quotes · Page 196

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

— Anne Akiko Meyers

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

— Anonymous

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

— Lisa Loeb

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

— Princess Nokia

I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales.

— August Rush

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

— Madame de Stael

Louis Walsh and I talk a lot about my music, and he's really happy with how it's going.

— Megan McKenna

I'm a country music listenin', Dirt road ridin', Camo wearin', Southern sassin' Kinda girl.

— Brittany

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

— David Toop

“I had no doubt that music was the most important thing in my life, and I was getting an education in that.”

— Michael Nesmith

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum…

— Stephen King

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long…

— The Weeknd

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added…

— Aoife O'Donovan

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

— Joshua Homme

Music - special magic that communicates feelings and sensitivities that are human and what is so wonderful about the art. Let your…

— Al Jarreau

“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request.…

— Tracey Thorn

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making…

— Chico Hamilton

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible…

— Tod Machover

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I…

— Julia Cameron

“One day you woke up, looked around and started saying things like, “It was better back then,” or, “Music nowadays is just…

— John Hunt

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to…

— K. Flay

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly…

— Steven Price

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

— Patty Griffin

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

— Olivia Newton-John

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

— Avril Lavigne

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

— Mark Hoppus

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

— Johann Johannsson

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

— Flea

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

— Kailash Kher

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

— Prince Royce

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

— Kelly Jones

Bigger shows, songs on the radio, more people aware of what I'm doing... all that, I'm ready!

— Mod Sun

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

— Don McLean

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

— Kate Nash

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

— Nick Carter

Music becomes my biggest friend when nobody else understands me:)

— Shexy_bishh

Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.

— Henry Mancini