Music Quotes · Page 230

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

— Branford Marsalis

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

— James Tenney

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

— Linda Perry

I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

— Angela Bowie

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

— Pat Conroy

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

— George Gershwin

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

— Erika M. Anderson

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own…

— Patti LaBelle

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

— Mary Daly

The band, and myself, really pride ourselves on being passionate and writing our songs and showing the world we're in music for…

— Luke Hemmings

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

— Dr. John

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

— Tony Fernandes

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change…

— Mike Gordon

Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows…

— Hiro Murai

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

— Henry Mancini

If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as…

— Missy Mazzoli

There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just…

— Big Freedia

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the…

— Pete Seeger

I got serious about performing, and I got serious about acting. It's very funny; singing has always been a very separate thing…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions…

— Simon Cowell

I've had some parents ask me to do private birthday parties for their students, which I can't do, but it's an honor…

— Raheem Jarbo

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening…

— Al Jarreau

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned…

— Alanis Morissette

Listening to Where Are You Now by Austin Mahone.. I absolutely love this song

— Vanessa

It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have.

— Lou Barlow

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

— Billy Joel

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

— Charlemagne Palestine

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

— Ronan Keating

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

— David Guetta

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

— Justin Chancellor

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

— Vivian Campbell

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

— Nadia Boulanger

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

— Lights

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

— Tessanne Chin

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

— John Mayer

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

— Donell Jones

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

— Anne Rice

Life is like a song. It written and then heard by the people your around.

— Anonymous

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

— Max Beerbohm