Music Quotes · Page 1,082

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

— India Arie

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

— Nas

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to…

— Rick Allen

I was raised in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church so I grew up around music a lot, singing harmonies and stuff like that,…

— Koffee

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was…

— Gina Rodriguez

We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.

— Gary Rossington

“Life is just like a movie, except it does not have background music, but you cannot see it in media.”

— Abrar Ahmed chowdhury

“Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that…

— Charles Ives

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be…

— David Cassidy

Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You…

— Ryan Lewis

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most…

— Lola Kirke

... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake…

— Eddie Van Halen

Hrithik is a great help to me while I compose the music for our films. He gives his inputs to us. He…

— Rajesh Roshan

I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral…

— Amanda Palmer

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank…

— John Mellencamp

It's great to do something that makes your brain just switch to a different mode, and music can do that really powerfully.

— Jon Hopkins

When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But…

— Bill Kaulitz

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

— Lucy Dacus

Music gets me through hard times, helps heal me heart, is always there on my good days and never leaves me alone…

— Tabby Maire

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

— Justin Broadrick

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

— Nayvadius Cash

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are…

— Josh Lucas

“I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?'…

— Brandon Stanton

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears…

— Lights

My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a…

— John Legend

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it,…

— DJ Khaled

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a…

— Kiesza

Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what…

— Gary Moore

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe…

— Ed Droste

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people,…

— Phil Elvrum

I tell my son, when your music becomes less relevant, your pathetic comic value might be of some use. So you've got…

— Michael McDonald

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth…

— Sid Sriram

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to…

— Anonymous

At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that…

— Sasha Spielberg

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

— Quentin Crisp