Music Quotes · Page 196

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

— Boyd K. Packer

My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.

— Badshah

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

— Michael Jackson

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

— Gordon Getty

Your current favorite song is the song that represents how you feel currently.

— Melania

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

— John Sebastian

Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams…

— Mandy Harvey

The entertainment industry can feel so serious. But at the end of the day, it's music and it's supposed to be positive…

— Snoh Aalegra

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to -…

— Daniel Clowes

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me"…

— Paul McCartney

“Most days Lily is the steady drumbeat. The rhythm of my heart. The repeating melody of the music in my head. But…

— Emily McKay

“some of the best music was composed by Beethovan,but he was deaf,some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton,but…

— Shibin Mohammed

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with…

— Andrew Bird

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them…

— Arvo Part

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot…

— Santigold

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a…

— Alan Rickman

I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I…

— Robert Pattinson

If you're a System fan and you gravitate towards the music, you enjoy the music, but you don't necessarily agree with the…

— John Dolmayan

“Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit…

— Josh Kun

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other…

— William Irwin Thompson

Me and Dre did all, from Wreckin' Cru to Ruthless, all that. We started making songs first... back then it was the…

— DJ Yella

In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's…

— Alexandra Patsavas

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

— Maya Rudolph

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

— John Scofield

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

— John Densmore

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

“If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.”

— Anonymous

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

— William Zinsser

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

— Amos Oz

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

— Michael Jackson

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

— Brian Eno

“Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.”

— Patience Johnson

I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

— John Mayer

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

— Lee DeWyze

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

— Sun Ra