Music Quotes · Page 430

Ah! Music is my ticket away from all the bullsh*t life throws at me...

— MLY AB

“Fate, up against your will. - The Killing Moon ”

— Echo and the Bunnymen

We write love songs because love is a part of our lives.

— Cupcakke

I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

— Trombone Shorty

When we are happy we enjoy the music , but when we are sad we try to understand lyrics !

— Tinku Razoria

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

— Wadada Leo Smith

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

— Duke Ellington

Music was something that nobody in my family does.

— Chris Lane

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of…

— David Lynch

All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes…

— Wayne Muller

“Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.”

— Ken Standley

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live…

— Hilary Hahn

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in…

— Herb Alpert

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person…

— Ned Rorem

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

— John Spiers

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love…

— Chick Corea

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as…

— Nancy Wilson

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I…

— Steven Morrissey

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of…

— George Ezra

There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance,…

— Anonymous

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like…

— Peter Baynham

Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing…

— Jonathan Coulton

Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which…

— Rita Marley

My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of…

— Meghann Fahy

There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women.

— Anonymous

Alcoholism and country music are both tremendous aids to self-dramatisation.

— Frank Skinner

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

— Brent Faiyaz

My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.

— Brandy Clark

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

— Boyd K. Packer

Thanks for always telling me which emerging buzz bands to have in my iPod.

— Anonymous

We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

— Ava Max

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

— Graham Nash

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

— Chris Hesse

Leonard Cohen is probably the greatest lyricist for music that's ever lived, you know?

— Beth Hart

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

— Lil' Kim

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

— David Cook

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

— Barry Gibb

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

— Charlie Parker

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

— Kenny Chesney

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor