Music Quotes · Page 112

Music is an incitement to love.

— Horace

I don't want music to be a museum.

— Jens Lekman

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

— Donatella Versace

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

— Kevin Ayers

Pop music should be about young people.

— Gary Kemp

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

— James Taylor

Sing the song or keep it inside.

— Scott Weiland

I just can't do without music.

— P. V. Sindhu

I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.

— Ramin Djawadi

I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

— Kaley Cuoco

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

— Tod Machover

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

— Lauren Mayberry

Being a musician is quite cerebral - there's a lot of sitting around.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

— Rex Orange County

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

— Al Yankovic

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“I had no doubt that music was the most important thing in my life, and I was getting an education in that.”

— Michael Nesmith

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

— David Toop

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the…

— Stephen Mallinder

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet…

— Ann Petry

What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.'

— Russ

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so…

— Carrie Underwood

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue…

— Terry Wogan

I thought "I don't need to reach out to my fans, I don't need to have that dialogue with them." But as…

— Bryan Greenberg

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to…

— Misha Glenny

Things weren't always easy when I entered films. Once I was promised a lead role in a film and two songs, but…

— Pooja Batra

What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a…

— Boy George

If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really…

— Jim Capaldi

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and…

— Isaac Hayes

To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school -…

— Wyclef Jean

“Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Musicals weren't on my radar.

— David Bryan

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

— Alanis Morissette

Music helps not the toothache.

— George Herbert

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

— Bootsy Collins

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

— Plato

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

— Flume

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

— Ritchie Blackmore