Music Quotes · Page 437

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

— Tom Petty

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

Listening to country music as a kid allowed my imagination to run wild.

— Jessica Mauboy

The trouble with life is theres no background music.

— Anonymous

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

— Prince

The more music you love, the happier you will be.

— Hayley Williams

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

— Ray Liotta

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

— Kamasi Washington

Loving you is hard and wanting you is wrong; like a paper full of words without the melody of a song ...

— Anonymous

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

— John Oates

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it…

— Dan Bejar

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted…

— John Darnielle

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going…

— John Mayer

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for…

— John Zorn

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as…

— Negash Ali

Van Halen stood out from the corporate rock clones being churned out monthly by the music industry.

— Marky Ramone

With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced…

— Dan Mangan

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and…

— Michael Martin Murphey

I'd like to think the manner in which I do my job, whether it's positive or negative, has very little to do…

— Mike Tomlin

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help…

— Kurt Masur

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the…

— Ronny Cox

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to…

— Ilka Chase

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good…

— Vivian Campbell

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

— Billie Holiday

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

— Frankie Cosmos

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

— Little Richard

For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.

— Mick Hucknall

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

— Joe Budden

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

— Grimes

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

— Burning Spear

Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos.

— Jake Paul

I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world.

— Haim Saban

My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home.

— Arlene Phillips

I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.

— Ramin Djawadi

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

— Eyedea

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

— Dexter Gordon

The main goal of my music is to make people feel strong and confident.

— Megan Thee Stallion

I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.

— Dave Navarro

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy