Music Quotes · Page 442

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music is everything to me,i can't live without it:)

— Mariah Sheree

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

— Anonymous

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

— Steve Miller

“She pulled out her earbuds, leaking music out into the art pavilion.”

— Maureen Johnson

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

— Tip O'Neill

My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.

— Wayne Static

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

— Emmanuel Jal

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good…

— Cat Stevens

The best thing about festivals is you can watch music live and really feel something, so I really hope that people feel…

— Griff

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the…

— Carol Friedman

The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.

— Brian Fallon

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make…

— Jack Johnson

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't…

— Christopher Moore

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many…

— Nina Simone

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously…

— Thom Yorke

“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew…

— Nick Hornby

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my…

— Ronnie Milsap

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens,…

— Pattiann Rogers

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was…

— Kenny G

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not…

— Eric Clapton

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

— Tom T. Hall

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

— Max Picard

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

— David Archuleta

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

— Jimmy Iovine

Music is my escape from all the bullshit in life.

— Aalaynah Thompson

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

— Eddy de Clercq

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

— Isaac Brock

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines”

— Diablo Cody

“Sensuality is the language of the soul translated through the body.”

— Lebo Grand

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

— Barry Manilow

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

— Don McLean

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

— Edgar Winter

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

— John Mayer

My responsibility is to the music and the industry.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson