Music Quotes · Page 386

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

— Maurice Ravel

Something about Mariah Carey's songs really had me wanting to sing high like her.

— Ari Lennox

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

— Joel Madden

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

— Annie Lennox

I like to think of myself as a musical scavenger.

— Bryce Dessner

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

— Joan Baez

I love music more than anything, but writing was like my first love.

— Gracie Abrams

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music…

— David Bowie

“The second he took her into his arms, causing a sensation she couldn’t quite describe in English as anything other than “mmmm”,…

— Dee Tenorio

I love Massenet - 'Manon' had been a wonderful role for me - and the music he wrote for 'Thais' is quite…

— Beverly Sills

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

— Claude Debussy

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My…

— Dhani Harrison

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic…

— George Clinton

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

— Jonathan Demme

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the…

— Greg Ginn

“The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but…

— Lewis Thomas

“In melodies of longing, my heart does play, A saxophonist's soul, in love's ballet. Our meetings planned, yet fate intervenes, A cosmic…

— Innantia H Magcanya

Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock…

— Robert Pollard

Being the recent accessibility of rare vinyl and cassette music via blogs, as well as the digital backlash which is driving more…

— Veronica Vasicka

Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener…

— Alex Goot

Why people used to go to clubs was to have a great time and to forget their troubles and worries and stresses…

— Paul Oakenfold

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for…

— Tim McGraw

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using…

— Charlie Parker

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

— John Cage

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

— Caroline Corr

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

— Anonymous

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

— Young Dolph

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

— Bobby Womack

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

— John Legend

I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

— John Coltrane

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

I want people to get positive energy from our music.

— Suga

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

— Eddie Vedder

It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.

— Mat Kearney

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

— Ariel Pink

My status is from a song...its not about you. Get over yourself.

— Anonymous

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

— Fela Kuti

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

— Les Baxter