Music Quotes · Page 453

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

— Wayne Dyer

Listening to songs that make you think of that one person you want to be with or are with.

— Anonymous

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

— Keren Woodward

My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road.

— Laufey

I really hope my music and my life can help encourage people not to give up.

— Mandy Harvey

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

— Lil Wayne

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

— Johnny Van Zant

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

— Dianne Reeves

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be…

— Michael Gracey

My mami and papi love my music. They're always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on.…

— Bad Bunny

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently…

— John Maus

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for…

— Hilary Hahn

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge…

— Angelique Kidjo

When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making…

— Cuco

Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon…

— James Nares

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted…

— Richard Betts

I would love to be able to say that due to my experience in the music industry, when it comes to the…

— Ne-Yo

I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I…

— Frankie Cosmos

You set me off with every word you say talking down on me why don't you sing a prayer you set me…

— Papa Roach

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some…

— Bruce Beresford

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is…

— Pierre Boulez

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

— Dule Hill

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

— Nicola Roberts

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

— Anonymous

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

— Anthony Bourdain

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

— Bing Crosby

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

— Robin Trower

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

— Girl Talk

When I talk about pop music needing someone dangerous, I wish that could be me.

— Michael Penn

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

— Vernon Reid

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

— Jorja Smith

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

— Cass McCombs

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

— Daveed Diggs

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

— Oscar Hammerstein II

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

— Michael Kiwanuka

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

— Billy Wilder