Music Quotes · Page 387

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

— Kailash Kher

I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.

— Rodney Crowell

People screw me over with words, so I screw them over with songs.

— Greyson Chance

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

— Jaime Preciado

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

— Don Dokken

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.

— Mabel

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

— Danny Fox

I hope they understand that I'm not angry, I'm just saying... Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.

— Shinedown

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not…

— Matt Ross

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are…

— Regina Spektor

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

— Petra Haden

I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing…

— Atif Aslam

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

— Erin McKeown

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess…

— Caleb Shomo

My goal as an artist is to funnel a pop record to a world in a very interesting way. I almost want…

— Lady Gaga

I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them.…

— Tristan Prettyman

I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a…

— Ted Nugent

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their…

— Nipsey Hussle

There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls…

— Richelle Mead

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact…

— John Steinbeck

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

— Ewan McGregor

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

— Henry Mancini

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

I have a lot more control with music, whereas with acting, there are so many people involved.

— Sophie Thatcher

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

— Michael Giacchino

I'm not concerned at all to have a number one song or a top 10 or top 50 or top whatever.

— Anitta

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

— Julie Andrews

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

— Ankit Tiwari

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

— Tod Machover

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

— Alessia Cara

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

— Rita Ora

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

— John Perry Barlow

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

— Astrid S

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

— Sax Rohmer