Music Quotes · Page 401

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

— Linda Perry

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

— Tracy Chapman

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

— Edgar Winter

It's incredible to have songs that change very drastically from beginning to end.

— Benson Boone

When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.

— Devin Townsend

Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

— Mohit Chauhan

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

— Tift Merritt

I wrote 'Threnody,' then I wrote several works where I changed my music completely.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

— Phil Anselmo

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

— Lemmy

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

— Salman Rushdie

“Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds…

— Ned Rorem

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music…

— Martin Freeman

“I walked when I should have run I ran when I should have walked And don't I know it, don't I know…

— Jamie Woon

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was…

— Gerard Way

Technology is going to play a huge part in tomorrow's music business. And the companies that will win are going to be…

— Troy Carter

“a squeeze as Jake guided them into a row of seats, and Fin forced herself to let go when they sat down.…

— Kate McCarthy

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the…

— Ringo Starr

“I sit with my back against a wall, put on my headphones, listen to the music, and imagine galaxies and stars and…

— Kamal Ravikant

“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day, So sweetly, that they stirred and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's…

— David Bennun

“But, uncle, isn’t it possible to make other songs, new songs?” “Why make them? There are enough for everything. There are songs…

— Romain Rolland

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

— Dave Grohl

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

— Bad Bunny

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

— John Gourley

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

— Anonymous

In India, romantic and sad songs will never die.

— Bhushan Kumar

“Bailey, do you ever hear music in your head ? You know, like even when there's none playing.”

— J.J. Howard

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

— Thomas Fuller

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

— Marcus Miller

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

— Rebecca West

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

— Chris Rock

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

— Stephen Hough

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

— Mick Barr

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

— David Byrne

“You can't make music, if you don't know how to play the… instrument.”

— ADBanyan

I grew up on Public Enemy, which had a message with great music behind it.

— Madlib