Music Quotes · Page 364

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

— John Badham

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

— Deepti Naval

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

— James Taylor

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

— Jim Jarmusch

Happy people listen to the music, sad people listen to the lyrics.

— Anmol Andore

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

Sometimes people can get shitty, but you won't last in music industry by taking things personally.

— Nick Murphy

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in…

— Su-chin Pak

My goal is get those chart positions, doing something good in music, and seeing that money in the bank.

— Scott Storch

There's no rules in music anymore. You don't have to go down with, 'You have a single, let's do six weeks of…

— Nadine Coyle

I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but…

— Becky Hill

Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things…

— Flying Lotus

Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.'…

— O. T. Genasis

I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or…

— Kevin Durand

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce…

— Ian Gillan

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties…

— Claude Debussy

My architectural education is way, way incomplete, but if you're in a beautifully designed space, it can change the way you see…

— Alison Sudol

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids.…

— Anoushka Shankar

“We're not like the other teenagers around us. We don't conform to stereotypes. We've actually become weird in the the eyes of…

— Jaquelle Crowe

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm…

— Lupe Fiasco

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,…

— Daniel Lopatin

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

— Dwight Yoakam

You could keep going back to BLACKPINK's music because it can never bore you.

— Jennie

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

I left Guns out of love. Out of love of music and being on stage.

— Slash

Music and acting have always been a part of who I am.

— Sara Khan

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

— Kelly Rowland

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

— Young Thug

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

— Wes Montgomery

The Backstreet Boys…they really do have good music!

— Enrique Iglesias

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

— Regina Spektor

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

— Joseph Curiale

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

— Sam Hunt

It's expensive to produce musicals on television.

— Craig Zadan

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

— John Cusack

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

— The D.O.C

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

— Jason Aldean