Music Quotes · Page 392

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

— Lecrae

“Music is the real life. Everything else is just mortar.”

— Fox Benwell

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

— Keith Richards

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

— August Alsina

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

— Yoko Ono

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

— DMX

Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene.

— Maxine Peake

I grew up with this rough-around-the-edges, unpolished kind of vibe my whole life, and then my mum listened to, like, Top 20…

— G Flip

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

— Young Jeezy

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

— Ben Rosenfield

Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both…

— Ira Sachs

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put…

— Jay Rock

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what…

— Gina Gershon

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which…

— Ludovico Einaudi

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith…

— John Zorn

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's…

— Ayn Rand

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands…

— Lester Bangs

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can…

— James Cameron

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best…

— Maya Angelou

“The woman looks deep into the waters of the lake and listens to the melody of her body being formed. Her life…

— Amy Weiss

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline…

— Caroline Polachek

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

— Jay Rock

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

— Michael Learned

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

— Alex Horne

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

— James Righton

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

— Kamasi Washington

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

— B. B. King

“You got to dance, even when there ain't no music.”

— Laura Lane McNeal

One thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.

— Drake

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

— Sid Sriram

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

Love Or Music.. Both Can Make You Addict Towards The Person Who Make it...

— Chakshu Aggarwal

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

— John Hawkes

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit…

— MNEK