Music Quotes · Page 1,081

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

— Hema Malini

My Grammy nomination didn't come from hip-hop, didn't come from R&B, didn't come from rock - it came from my success in…

— Jimmie Allen

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me…

— Blake Judd

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

— Billy Squier

That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

— Lorrie Morgan

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or…

— Laurence Equilbey

In 2014, I composed the music for 'Jai Ho' which premiered in Dubai and I was a 23-year-old kid back then.

— Amaal Mallik

People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.

— Chris Martin

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when…

— John Lewis

A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body…

— Dave Davies

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making,…

— Moby

I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right,…

— Jon Secada

The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer…

— Terry Teachout

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Biddy Weir: I can be normal, she thought, as she moved her body to the music with increasing ease. I can. I…

— Lesley Allen

I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with…

— Cee Lo Green

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

— Valerie Simpson

“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad…

— Alfred B. Douglas

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is…

— Aberjhani

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

— Big Sean

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards…

— Angelique Kidjo

If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really…

— Beth Hart

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your…

— Sting

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies…

— Sayyid Qutb

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

— Peter Ustinov

The fans at our shows in Tokyo love music so much; they're amazing. They give a kind of energy and adrenaline that…

— Arnel Pineda

Sundresses, bikinis, country music, swimming, being tan, windows down, baseball games, lake days, late nights. Is it summer yet?

— Anonymous

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

— George Crumb

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great…

— Fiona Apple

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

— William Blake

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things…

— Thundercat

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James

The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture.

— Morgan Neville

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to…

— Patty Schemel

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world…

— Robert Plant

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

— Juliette Binoche

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as…

— Robin Thicke