Music Quotes · Page 383

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

— Mike Birbiglia

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

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

— Astrid S

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

— Jan Garbarek

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

— CL

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

— Benson Boone

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

— Phil Elvrum

“It’s not just about private time. It’s the atmosphere, the music and the lighting. It’s about doing something in public you know…

— Loni Flowers

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Songs have many versions:cover version,Language version,instrumentals bt there is only one version of you in this world,so be yourself

— Alister Quadros

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew…

— Coco Lee

When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the…

— Compay Segundo

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

— George Harrison

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me…

— Jason Derulo

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of…

— Jandy Nelson

I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time.…

— Bart Millard

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you…

— Greg Kurstin

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same…

— Laura Joplin

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I…

— Andrea Barrett

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason…

— Lou Reed

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know…

— Jack White

“«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because…

— Bruce Sterling

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

— Corey Taylor

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

— Suzanne Collins

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

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

— Mike Shinoda

Behind every girls favirote song is an untold story

— 13 Yearold

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

— Cameron Crowe

I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

— Kevin Parker

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

— Brian Eno

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

— Bryan Ferry

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

— Navya Nair

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

— Joe Pass

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

— Raphael Saadiq

I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.

— Young Thug

Its just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

— Johnny Mathis