Music Quotes · Page 304

Good Luck Benjamin Lasnier! I hope your music career will be successful!

— Avery

“And I know The scariest part is letting go Cause love is a ghost you can’t control”

— Christina Perri

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

— Aloe Blacc

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

— Dave Matthews

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

— Ellie Goulding

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

— Tristan Murail

“And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.”

— Brian Logan Dales

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”

— Agnes De Mille

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like…

— Kenny G

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being…

— Dhani Harrison

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult…

— Alan Palomo

When I was 18 and going to Berklee College of Music, I started singing in a 60-person gospel choir where almost everyone…

— Susan Tedeschi

“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

— Anne Rice

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I…

— Jordin Sparks

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the…

— Glen Hansard

“They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.”

— Frank McCourt

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,…

— Douglas Coupland

Jazz has always been my first love. It has this timeless effect on me. It's pretty odd that I didn't become a…

— Philip Bailey

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn…

— Anne Lamott

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine…

— Aaron Bruno

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it…

— Donny Osmond

Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to…

— Sasha Velour

“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many…

— Deb Caletti

“Come, Spirits" she murmured; and was instantly fortified by a sense of the presence of the things that aren't there. There were…

— Virginia Woolf

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

— Kate Voegele

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

— Mike Birbiglia

I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.

— Jake Shears

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die.

— Rostam Batmanglij

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

— Thomas Beecham

I want to be Benson Boone 'cause I write smash hits and they love my music.

— Benson Boone

What I do is all about expressing myself, whether it's music or the clothes I wear.

— CL

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

— Jan Garbarek

I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

— Astrid S

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

— Ziggy Marley

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

— Theophilus London

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

— Mike Shinoda

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

— Steve Chalke