Music Quotes · Page 405

I just think you have got to bring out good music.

— James Arthur

Nowadays, everybody wants to be a rapper, but not everybody can rap..

— Dominic Amali

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

— Steven Seagal

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

— Vikram Seth

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

— Frank Carson

I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.

— Chris Lane

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

— Ben Harper

LIFE would've been soo much more easier if it came with background music!

— Bangera

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

— Petra Haden

That awkward moment when your at the club and the women next to you sings along with the song and says I…

— Raul Vasquez

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

With 'The Theory of Everything,' it seems that people really like the voice I've found with the music, which is great. But…

— Johann Johannsson

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

— Hozier

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner…

— Ernest Newman

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music…

— Tadao Ando

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet…

— Yoko Ono

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just…

— Autre Ne Veut

No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology.…

— Richard Meltzer

What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been…

— Bo Burnham

I've written so many songs that are hopeful - songs that are, like, about an old man that gives all his possessions…

— Mark Foster

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want…

— Yanni

I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and…

— Tove Styrke

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to…

— Kanye West

“Recordings of Georgian folk polyphonic songs makes a great musical impression. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian…

— Igor Stravinsky

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

— Nadia Boulanger

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

— Immanuel Kant

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”

— Reginald Vincent Holmes

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

— Pharoah Sanders

My problem with eighties songs is they take too long to get to the chorus.

— Dr. Luke

Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

— Nia Long

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

— Lesley Garrett

The songs that I do for films are close to my heart.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

— Chuck Berry

I've always considered my music cathartic, I always called it therapeutic music.

— Jelly Roll

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

— T-Pain

“She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser”

— Kailin Gow

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

— Melanie Martinez

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

— Chris Martin

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

— Sam Rivers

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

— Ricky Skaggs