Music Quotes · Page 267

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

— John K. Samson

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

— Kerli

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

— Bill Watterson

“No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

— Natalie Maines

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

— Darrell Wallace Jr

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

— Bob Weir

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the…

— Martina McBride

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me…

— Sarah McLachlan

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself…

— Frank Fairfield

“If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

It makes you feel like a warm hug when you listen to the stories in the music. It's why I fell in…

— Lainey Wilson

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how…

— Sam Hunt

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and…

— Rick DeJesus

Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and…

— Anonymous

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought…

— Justine Bateman

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop…

— Jay-Z

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and…

— Eric McCormack

She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word…

— Samuel Beckett

D.C. is a great place. The music, jazz, has always been great here, the restaurants have always been fantastic here. And there's…

— George Lopez

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for…

— Eddie Murphy

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to…

— Chris Hoy

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

— Ginuwine

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

— Laura Mvula

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

— Taylor Swift

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

— Stanley Clarke

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

— Jimmy Iovine

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

— Lil Jon

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

— Herbie Mann

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

— Drake

“Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home”

— Leonard Cohen

I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.

— Finneas

I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.

— Trentemøller

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

That awkward moment when you sing the wrong part of a song with confidence.

— Cuts And Scars

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

— Glen Campbell