Music is Quotes · Page 46

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be…

— Joel Madden

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to…

— Yoko Ono

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve…

— Charlie Haden

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

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

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

— Aloe Blacc

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.

— Willie Nelson

Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs…

— Constance Hale

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born,…

— Hayley Williams

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty,…

— Mike Figgis

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save…

— Guy Clark

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music…

— Jimmy Carl Black

The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd…

— Joey McIntyre

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body…

— Marva Dawn

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

— El-P

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

— Billy Connolly

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

— Carrot Top

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

— Anonymous

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

— Bob Mondello

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

— Miguel

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed…

— Ashley Greene

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel…

— Ben Harper

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one…

— Simone Elkeles

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place…

— Jan Garbarek

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

— Michelle Shocked

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

— Lotte Lehmann

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case…

— Lulu

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

— Alison Moyet

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

— Big Boi

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and…

— Bun B

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

— Norah Jones

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

— Tori Amos

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is…

— Carlos Santana

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is…

— Van Morrison

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

— Pinchas Zukerman

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is…

— Frank Zappa

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story...…

— Grey DeLisle

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

— David Nail