Music Quotes · Page 1,031

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of…

— Tony Iommi

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

— Charlie Rich

There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other's song. A friend knows the…

— Sent In By Soumya

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

— Natalie Maines

I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.

— Rich Brian

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

— Julia Sawalha

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies…

— Thomas Dolby

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

— Zoltan Kodaly

“I don't know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head,…

— Nick Coleman

What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the…

— Christina Perri

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing…

— Margaret Cho

Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric,…

— Kimbra

Playing for three or four people in a boardroom, standing a foot away from them with a guitar, and singing three songs…

— Ruel

I started to write religious music at a time when it was absolutely impossible. The first religious work I wrote was the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see…

— Tony Williams

The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells…

— Cassadee Pope

Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is…

— James Newton Howard

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing…

— June Jordan

Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting…

— Natalia Lafourcade

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music…

— Justin Bieber

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

— Paul Weller

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed…

— Angus Young

I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith…

— Andy Mineo

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or…

— Danger Mouse

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical…

— John Maus

Culturally, I remember listening to Salil Chowdhury's music for Malayalam films. Many Bengali actors have worked in our films, too.

— Mammootty

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half…

— Andris Nelsons

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

— Cole Swindell

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

— Adam Kluger

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the…

— Anonymous

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because…

— Jens Lekman

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

— Georg Solti

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as…

— Kate Bush

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

— Mahalia Jackson

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a…

— Gord Downie

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

— John Ruskin

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't…

— Rick Springfield

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk…

— Anitta