Music Quotes · Page 424

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

— Andy Grammer

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

— Kerry King

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

— Lily Allen

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

— SZA

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

— Iggy Pop

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

— Peter Steele

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

— Sonny Rollins

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that…

— Jonathan Groff

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

— Alvin Ailey

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a…

— Don Johnson

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

— James Genn

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

— Porter Robinson

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I…

— Justine Skye

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if…

— Suga

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

— Brian Molko

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her…

— Henry Rollins

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry…

— Lykke Li

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and…

— Jamie Lidell

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write…

— Lou Doillon

My whole thing is, I love music. If I can find someone that can put their own flag up in the game…

— B-Real

Writing and working with producers is like dating - it sounds strange to say that, but you have to test people out.…

— Anoop Desai

We've noticed that even though we sing in Japanese, our fans study Japanese and sing along with us, and that people who…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

“you're @ home?"She could hear him moving around..."I'll let you go then." "What if I dont want you to?"he said. She heard…

— Melissa Marr

I just hope my music inspires people to really come together. LOVE and POSITIVITY.

— Chris Brown

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

— Charlotte Alington Barnard

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

— Claudio Monteverdi

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

— Eddie Van Halen

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

— Avicii

I get in the car and I blare music. That's kind of my happy place. That's how I celebrate.

— Nelly Korda

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

— Chico Hamilton

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

— Paul Robeson

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

— W. H. Auden

When I was in high school, I was like the only girl making music.

— Rico Nasty

I Need You More Than The Song That I Sing, Or The Air That I Breathe,Or This Mealody.

— Loneliest_love

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

— Maya Angelou

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

— Paul Hindemith

“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.

— Yolandi Visser