Music is Quotes · Page 52

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

— David Johansen

I'm a music lover and I hate to hate on any music because people are just doing their best.

— Bridget Everett

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

— Karen Marie Moning

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

— John Lennon

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be…

— Fred Armisen

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

— Richard Wagner

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I…

— Imelda May

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…

— Aaron Carter

If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is…

— Grimes

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so…

— Ricky Skaggs

I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever,…

— Kevin McCall

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as…

— Cameron Crowe

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they…

— Frederick Lenz

I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain…

— Andy Gill

I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just…

— Conor O'Brien

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

— George Harrison

I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection.

— Tristan Prettyman

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

— Eric Ripert

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile,…

— Michael Franti

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not…

— Ethel Smyth

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

— Frank Fairfield

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music…

— Luke Bryan

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for…

— Andrew Bird

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music…

— D'wayne Wiggins

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

— Nelly Furtado

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

— Pierre Boulez

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to…

— Nobuo Uematsu

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon…

— Anthony Storr

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit…

— David Ellefson

The music is mine. Theres nothing to hide behind. Thats where you see the real person.

— Iwan Rheon

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because…

— Isaac Hayes

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I…

— Chaka Khan

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

— Cathleen Falsani

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was…

— Johnny Cash

I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

— Alex Parks

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is…

— Phil Collins