Music Quotes · Page 443

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

— Gavin Bryars

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

— Ray Davies

I'm a really passionate person and I feel the music and I'll give everything I've got on stage.

— Jen Ledger

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

— Warwick Thornton

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

— Paul Simon

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

— Ruben Blades

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

— Gary Kemp

The digital space is booming, and people are finally realising its importance. It is an effective medium for emerging talent, allowing musicians…

— Jonita Gandhi

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but…

— Dave Keuning

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important…

— Dave Navarro

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

— Gerhard Richter

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on…

— Steve Vai

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

— Shaun Ryder

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to…

— Vidya Vox

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to…

— Mat Kearney

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I…

— Brett Young

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether…

— Penn Jillette

I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and…

— Lee Ranaldo

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to…

— Scott Avett

When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football -…

— Pete Doherty

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music…

— Mark Hoppus

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an…

— Lou Reed

'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now…

— Calum Scott

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

— Kurt Cobain

“Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.”

— T.L. Rese

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

— Rene Marie

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

— Aleister Black

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

— Noah Cyrus

I love music because it's the only thing that hasn't walked away from me when I needed it most.

— Nishan Panwar

“So baby, if you say you want me to drive, to KFC”

— Niall Horan

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

— Maxwell

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

— Aaron Watson

I do love to dance, and that's fun, but I will never stop writing my quiet, sensitive songs.

— Alison Sudol

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

— Andrae Crouch

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

— Duncan Sheik

I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

— Clairo

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

— Morgan Wallen

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

— Jeremy Riddle

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

— Mahatma Gandhi