Music Quotes · Page 438

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

— Nigel Farage

When it comes to music, I'm such a fan of music and it makes me feel so much.

— Snoh Aalegra

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

— Bill Monroe

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

— Nancy Wilson

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

— Tori Amos

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

— Julie Andrews

The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

— Shawn Mendes

When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you…

— Zaytoven

For me, I like to be different. I didn't want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other…

— Shinsuke Nakamura

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

— Chris Martin

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that.…

— Charlie Puth

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

— Jodi Picoult

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit…

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I kind of just sat in a room for six years making music, and then suddenly I was on the road all…

— Ethel Cain

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our…

— Grace Chatto

“We play a show, and there's a hundred people, and people will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But…

— Ian Mackaye

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're…

— Vince Staples

Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in…

— Siouxsie Sioux

“A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of…

— Anne Rice

“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or…

— D.A. Botta

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide…

— Michael Franti

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

— Eminem

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

— Liz Phair

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

— Charlie Hunter

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

— Earl Hines

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

— Adam Duritz

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

— Frank Stallone

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

— Ailyn Perez

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

— Aaron Bruno

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

— Kristen Wiig

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

— Trombone Shorty

It's my music. If it's not good enough, then that's how it will be.

— Conchita Wurst

“Style is the inner feeling which turns random movement into music.”

— Debasish Mridha

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

“Note to self: when feeling the music and thrusting hard, keep eyes open. At all times.”

— Meghan Quinn

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

— Bijou Phillips