Music Quotes · Page 215

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

— Bantu Holomisa

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

— Cecilia Bartoli

I started playing music when I was 12 years old.

— Chris Jericho

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

One can find a Punjabi song in all genres. I, as a singer, too, aim to sing all kind of songs.

— Guru Randhawa

I broke a record throwin money, 20 straight songs.

— Plies

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

— Geddy Lee

When I entered the music industry, the biggest struggle was reaching out to people.

— Guru Randhawa

I tried to be a musician for seven years and I'd given it my all, but no one was really interested or…

— Michelle Zauner

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how…

— Jimmy Page

Call me a struggler, a failure, work in progress or underrated, but I would love people to add the word singer or…

— Aditya Narayan

“Then the music begins and we can both hear the slow, quiet, sweet desperation of a song I won’t mention. Imagine the…

— Markus Zusak

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it…

— Thomas Beecham

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played,…

— Billy Corgan

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just…

— John Frusciante

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

— Charlie Day

My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or,…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

While red carpets always existed, the importance given to fashionable appearances wasn't that much in the mainstream music space. And now, even…

— Neha Bhasin

I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating…

— James Spader

Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another…

— Paul Rodgers

I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas.…

— Lindsey Stirling

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous…

— Alejandra Pizarnik

“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

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

— Mohit Chauhan

I was brought onboard to strengthen the bridge between Spotify and the music community.

— Troy Carter

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

— Josh Homme

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

— Brandy Clark

I don't think of my music as being about something.

— Paul Lansky

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

— Mickey Hart

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Excuse me, could you shut the f*ck up? This is my favorite part of the song.

— Kiana J Wilson

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

— Jencarlos Canela

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

— Ryan Hurd

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...

— Kurt Rosenwinkel

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

— Zara Larsson

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

— Sting

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

— Ray Charles