Music Quotes · Page 269

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

— Elvis Presley

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

— Ezra Furman

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

— Patrick Wolf

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

— Gary Rossington

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

— Dave Barry

I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.

— Ray Toro

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

— Trisha Yearwood

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

— Chris de Burgh

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or…

— J. J. Cale

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a…

— Charo

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

— Peter Asher

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

— John Britt Daniel

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an…

— Chris McCormack

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless…

— Julie Andrews

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African…

— Cassandra Wilson

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Some of the music from the Vines and the Strokes are good on record, but I hate seeing them live. I saw…

— 3 Doors Down

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.…

— Madonna Ciccone

I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by…

— Beth Ditto

I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's…

— Max Minghella

Na na na na na na na na yeah You are the music in me You know the words once upon a…

— She's_gone

Listen, it aint fresh to just let him call the shots Youre a queen, you should be, getting all that someones got…

— Trey Songz

I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz.

— Laufey

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

— Henry Mancini

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

— DJ Shadow

That moment when you're on you tube singing along and the music stops loading :)

— Anonymous

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

— Aaron Dontez Yates

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

— Isadora Duncan

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

— Ry Cooder

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

— Smokey Robinson

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for 'Lion King.'

— Doja Cat

My object is to make people happy with our music.

— Judith Durham

Growing up, I always had Indian music playing around the house.

— Jonita Gandhi

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

— Martina McBride

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

— Danger Mouse

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

— Tod Machover