Music Quotes · Page 68

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work…

— Jeff Tweedy

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character…

— Sergio Leone

The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

— Madlib

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym -…

— Tony Parsons

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted…

— Taylor Swift

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the…

— Donald Francis Tovey

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

— Dave Grohl

Unfortunately, I can't sing or play any instruments. But, I love Collective Soul. They've got some good music.

— Chase Elliott

Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for…

— Masaba Gupta

“Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that…

— Cuthbert Soup

Music full of relevant and moneys overrated Thats why I spend it like I look at it with hatred.

— Wale

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But…

— Gordon Lightfoot

“The Harlot’s House. We caught the tread of dancing feet, We loitered down the moonlit street, And stopped beneath the harlot’s house.…

— Oscar Wilde

If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great…

— Roger Taylor

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling…

— Anthony Hamilton

“You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It's the morning of your very first day. You say hi…

— Taylor Swift

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

— Jose Bergamin

A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time…

— Michelle MacLaren

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

— David Guetta

“she cleaned, scrubbing to the staticky rhythm of Hawaiian music playing from her silver clock radio.”

— Janet Mock

“There’s no melody in life that is sweeter than the sound of success and accomplishment.”

— Author Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

— Aleksa Palladino

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a…

— AJ Tracey

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

— Marc Martel

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

— Corey Smith

I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to…

— Aldous Harding

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

— R. Kelly

I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around…

— R. Kelly

“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like…

— John Cheever

Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the…

— Myles Kennedy

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

— Miles Davis

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way,…

— Maynard James Keenan

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

— Jessie James Decker

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

“The iPod, like the Walkman cassette player before it,C allows us to listen to our music wherever we want. Previously, recording technology…

— David Byrne

There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend…

— Sam Hunt

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably…

— Stewart Butterfield

When I was in high school and it was time to figure out what I was going to do, I was like,…

— GloRilla