Music Quotes · Page 35

With music I get to feel real ownership with what I do. I write it, I perform it and even if it…

— John Cho

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

— Nick Hornby

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

— Bob Seger

... I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ...

— Cesar Rosas

I come up from a music background.

— Malik Yoba

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

— Roisin Murphy

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.…

— Missy Mazzoli

People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but…

— Elvis Costello

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

— Bob Dylan

I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved…

— Kelsea Ballerini

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that…

— Charlie Kaufman

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music.…

— Noel Gallagher

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent…

— Thomas Sangster

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I…

— Ry Cooder

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good…

— Chris Lowe

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.”

— Matt Haig

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death,…

— Martin Bormann

Remember that song that you let me listen to last time, well even though I didnt like it that much, because of…

— Josephine

It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for…

— Thighpaulsandra

“There's no better place to find yourself that sitting by a waterfall and listening to it's music”

— Roland R Kemler

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if…

— Jack Gould

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician.…

— Cass McCombs

Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever.

— Simon Raymonde

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm