Music Quotes · Page 195

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

— Jordan Knight

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

— Julia Michaels

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

— Devendra Banhart

'Hold On' is such an important song to me personally.

— Chord Overstreet

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

— Florence Welch

We love Bring Me The Horizon and I respect the band and their music.

— Moa Kikuchi

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

— Willie Nelson

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

— Queen Latifah

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in…

— Lucy Dacus

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take…

— Craig Finn

I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay…

— Mark Stoermer

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

— Lauryn Hill

I've been in the game a long time. I've done all sorts of different types of music. From mob music to the…

— E-40

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that…

— Mike Birbiglia

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't…

— Buddy Holly

We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed…

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,…

— Steve Martin

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I…

— Bo Bice

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive.…

— Branford Marsalis

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way…

— Tim Commerford

I do love the marriage of words and music. I do love them in terms of little snapshots. But, I guess I…

— Luke Temple

I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to…

— Ellie Goulding

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as…

— Scott Turow

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

— Trombone Shorty

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

— Ziggy Marley

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

— Sarah McLachlan

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

— Dan Bejar

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

— Gregory Orr

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

— Ashley McBryde

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

— Daryl Hall

I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.

— Everlast

“Piano music always puts me in deep thoughts mode.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

— Paul Rodgers