Music Quotes · Page 162

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.

— Julia Holter

Color is a language, like music.

— Vlady Kibalchich Russakov

See the music, hear the dance.

— George Balanchine

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

— Jimmy Iovine

Musical theatre is my first love.

— Laura Benanti

A song is a poem set to music.

— Tom T. Hall

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

— Anand Mahindra

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

— Matthew Ramsey

I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection.

— Tristan Prettyman

I only want to make enough money to make more music.

— Brian Reitzell

“Until the end and from the start." The Lost Boys”

— Lilian Carmine

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

— Ben Howard

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

— Afrojack

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

— Pepa

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with…

— Benmont Tench

I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it's its own thing. That's why I went out…

— Brent Faiyaz

No matter how much life sucks sometimes, there's always some kind of escape.Mine happens to be music.

— Kellin Quinn Bostwick

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything.…

— Harry Styles

It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.

— Joe Bonamassa

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland.…

— Kim Shattuck

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in…

— Tim McIlrath

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want…

— Jack White

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back…

— Marilyn Manson

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and…

— Charlie Haden

“He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all…

— Joe Meno

“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then…

— Yvonne Prinz

I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world…

— Oliver Sim

There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish.…

— Christine McVie

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do…

— Sam Smith

I write emotional music.

— Les Baxter

I try to write humanistic songs.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Listening to songs that make me think of you~~~

— Anonymous

“Oh yes. His voice has music.”

— Ally Condie

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

— Babette Deutsch

I privilege the music over the lyrics

— Duncan Sheik

I don't have a musical bone in my body.

— Trudie Styler

Our music speaks for itself.

— Sisqo