Music Quotes · Page 250

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

— Afrojack

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

— Brad Paisley

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

We will always hear the vibrations of Ennio's music and feel it in our hearts.

— Alexandre Desplat

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

— Mohan Sithara

Visions realize, music affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognize.

— Common

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

— Bridget Kelly

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song,…

— Billy Squier

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

— Italo Zucchelli

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

— Freddie Hubbard

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then,…

— Aaron Sorkin

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel…

— Kygo

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge…

— Cher Lloyd

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

— Anonymous

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these…

— Vic Mensa

It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've…

— Eddie Vedder

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an…

— Bruce Molsky

When I first got into string-band music I felt like such an interloper. It was like I was sneaking into this music…

— Rhiannon Giddens

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it…

— Talib Kweli

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms…

— Joe Lovano

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

— John Stamos

“Proud men are the devil’s pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.”

— Richard Sibbes

“Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.”

— Varanasi Kalki

It is a common misconception that deaf people can't enjoy music.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

— Yanni

I would say that I don't look for musical things.

— Will Chase

The audience will always be receptive to good music if they are provided that.

— Kumar Sanu

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

— Roger McGuinn

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

— Lester Bowie

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.

— Zakk Wylde

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

Some people believe in god, I believe in music. Some people pray, I turn up the volume.

— Anonymous

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

— Claude Debussy

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

— Skylar Grey

'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs.

— Rza

I've been sort of playing music since I was probably 8 years old or something like that.

— Johann Johannsson