Music Quotes · Page 228

“Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.”

— John Cornelius O'Callaghan V

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

— Roger Scruton

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

“No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.”

— Deborah Curtis

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

— Jade Bird

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

— Vikram Chatwal

I sing, and the musicians kind of fit things around me.

— Aretha Franklin

Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show.

— Michael Giacchino

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I…

— Matt Sorum

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going…

— Ben Lovett

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

— Jake Shears

Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.

— Wendy Starland

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be…

— L.A. Reid

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet…

— Lil B

I'm not making this up. The Rock was listening to Jelly Roll music when Spotify numbers said only 30,000 people were listening…

— Jelly Roll

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was…

— Grace Jones

Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing,…

— Charlyne Yi

“A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind…

— Wilder Penfield

“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then…

— Peter Watts

Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals…

— John Milton

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it…

— Ryan Adams

“When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8)…

— James Stein

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time,…

— Jeff Tweedy

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

— The Weeknd

Music runs my life. I can't imagine going a day without it.

— Jake Peavy

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.

— Tarja Turunen

“Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights.”

— Debasish Mridha

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

— Hoodie Allen

If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything!

— Debra Stephenson

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

— Theophilus London

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

— Tom Petty

I've noticed that when I write I tend to have slightly poppier melodies.

— Jen Ledger

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

— Elvis Costello

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile

— Michael Hutchence

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.

— DJ Snake

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

— George Harrison