Music Quotes · Page 309

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

— KT Tunstall

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

— Clarence Clemons

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

— Jose Carreras

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

— Barry Manilow

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

— Ilaiyaraaja

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

— Craig David

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

— Joey Jordison

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a…

— Aubrie Sellers

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I…

— Erykah Badu

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from…

— Eugene McCarthy

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

— Roland Joffe

My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll…

— Adam Granduciel

“Though a lifetime of listening to the music of the world has passed, even now the tone of the rain on the…

— Kensi Brianne Smith

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

— Rob Halford

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal…

— Brian Chippendale

When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable…

— Robbie Robertson

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what…

— Riz Ahmed

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm…

— Jonathan Lethem

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story...…

— Grey DeLisle

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and…

— Kurt Masur

I think it's a really excellent time to be a woman in music. A lot of the past was women fighting to…

— Emily Kokal

“As I believe I told you before, there had been some slight unpleasantness between us, arising from the occasion when she had…

— PG Wodehouse

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music…

— Randy Houser

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

— Anonymous

I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.

— Ludwig Goransson

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

— Jonas Blue

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

— Oscar Hijuelos

I want a man who could memorize my favorite song just to sing it to me when I'm feeling down.

— Anonymous

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

— Dolly Parton

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

— Anonymous

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

— Heinrich Neuhaus

My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.

— Lil Jon

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

— Gerry Mulligan

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

— Ezra Koenig

I want to make music that I would like if it came on the radio.

— Madison Beer