Music Quotes · Page 327

Leading into 'The Hurting,' what changed our view of music was Gary Numan.

— Curt Smith

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.

— Marcel Wanders

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

— Camila Cabello

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

— Jimi Hendrix

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

— Joni Mitchell

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

— Raftaar

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on…

— Robert Caro

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is…

— Greg Lake

People who know me as a hard-core rocker who positively despises musicals might be surprised to find that I am a huge…

— Jackie Fuchs

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that…

— Hal Sparks

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,…

— Roscoe Mitchell

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let…

— Labrinth

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out…

— Raheem DeVaughn

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film,…

— Christopher Young

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music…

— David Byrne

One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but…

— Nancy Wilson

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that…

— Sonu Nigam

Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In…

— Stromae

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or…

— Shawn Mendes

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested…

— Yo-Yo Ma

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic…

— Anonymous

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

— John Cale

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

— Jodi Picoult

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

— Jens Lekman

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

— Robert Quine

My music is nostalgic. The early Neil Sedaka songs are always catchy and very singable.

— Neil Sedaka

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

— Coco Lee

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

— Andrew McMahon

Who needs friends when you have musicians who'll never know you exist...

— Anonymous

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

— DMX

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

— Idris Elba

Songs are like children in a way. They all need to find a home.

— Thomas Rhett

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

— Sergio Pizzorno

“Melody tried to distract me in a skirt made of brain skin.”

— Steve Aylett

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

— Keith Whitley

One thing good about music is when it hits you, you don't fell any pain

— BoB Marley