Music Quotes · Page 1,040

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

— Yung Lean

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from…

— Lars Ulrich

When your parents leave you home alone ... Well, its time toteach the neighbor what good music is.

— Anonymous

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until…

— Jodi Picoult

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put…

— Jon Foreman

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to…

— Girl Talk

I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting…

— SZA

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out…

— Randy Travis

Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song…

— Smokey Robinson

“She might have rolled her eyes had she not seen what lay before her. Sheet music. For the performance she’d seen last…

— Sarah J. Maas

I know that when it comes to your friends, especially in the music industry, we work so much and do so much…

— Amine

... I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ...…

— Neil Young

That's one thing I talk to about with up and coming producers or people who are just getting started - don't think…

— Naughty Boy

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff…

— Alison Sudol

“It wasn't like the other songs. There was no story, no conversation. This was just the feeling, without words or pictures, and…

— Brenna Yovanoff

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who…

— Kacey Musgraves

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

— Michael Giles

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of…

— Kevin Eubanks

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in…

— Hyuna

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of…

— Jimi Hendrix

“I knew he was all about atmosphere: the lighting, the artwork on the walls, the spacing of tables, music. He loved the…

— Susan Bernhardt

Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of…

— Sue Perkins

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I…

— Debby Boone

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was…

— Bo Bice

“Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers.”

— Ravi Zacharias

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.

— Allan Holdsworth

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

— Charles Mingus

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want…

— Michael Giles

Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a…

— Alexandre Desplat

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

— Lupe Fiasco

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in…

— Gail Zappa

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music…

— Barkhad Abdi

If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will…

— Russ

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.

— Kim Petras

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives…

— Michael Franti

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

— Bob Dylan

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never…

— Anton Corbijn