Music Quotes · Page 1,108

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.

— DJ Premier

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to…

— Mikal Cronin

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and…

— Maurice Blanchot

In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and…

— Tristan Prettyman

Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

— George Li

There's an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created…

— Raye

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical…

— Harold Prince

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that…

— Flying Lotus

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay…

— Annie Lennox

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and…

— Marjane Satrapi

“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music…

— Paul Lockhart

It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing…

— Jeff Tweedy

Honestly, it's a blessing. Benny's [Blanco] probably one of the most talented people I know. He's just a very proactive guy when…

— Tory Lanez

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was…

— Shane Koyczan

As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I…

— Anoushka Shankar

I used to listen to my music on the bus. It was one of my favourite things, to look out the window…

— Kaytranada

I want to continue to make personable music that people can relate to on all levels through the many styles I have.

— Quincy Brown

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

— Garth Brooks

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you…

— Andrew Bird

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

— Natalie Prass

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

— Jeff Buckley

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

— Tom Morello

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another…

— Wayne Dyer

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour,…

— Jason Mraz

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of…

— Sam Palladio

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

— Irving Berlin

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

— Mick Ronson

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

— Marcel Dzama

“Music has gone the way of food. People want it fast and cheap and they don’t care what it tastes like or…

— Yvonne Prinz

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

— Kevin Parker

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing…

— Marc E. Platt

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is…

— Pat Metheny

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.…

— Chris Cornell

I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing…

— Tash Sultana

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as…

— Marty Stuart

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like…

— Robert Pattinson