Music Quotes · Page 465

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

— Becky G

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

— Tod Machover

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

— Katie White

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

— Big Freedia

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

— Elton John

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

— M.I.A

I really like electronic stuff. I was enamored with that whole genre of music.

— Philip Bailey

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming…

— John Entwistle

Our message is simple: where our music is welcome, we will play it loud; where out music is challenged, we will play…

— Anonymous

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

— Ringo Starr

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also…

— Tiny Tim

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really…

— Avril Lavigne

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what…

— Tyler Hilton

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your…

— Billy Bob Thornton

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words,…

— Allan Holdsworth

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the…

— Jon Landau

You know, when you are doing a musical you have no life - you are doing eight shows a week, so you…

— Leslie Uggams

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote.…

— Samantha Shannon

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out,…

— Kat Dahlia

I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any…

— El-P

Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I…

— Flume

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

— Rolonda Watts

In one way or another, all my songs are about the necessity for trust.

— Michael McDonald

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

— Sonny Rollins

If you hear a song and you like it, you like it.

— Darius Rucker

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

— Marc Bolan

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

— Jim Morrison

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

— Agnes Obel

“Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.”

— Nicholas A. McGirr

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

— Willie Nelson

If a song really moves me, if I think it's a good song, I can do it.

— B. J. Thomas

I can't even watch horror movies - I have to turn the music down!

— Jaime Murray

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

— Martin Short

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”

— Cassandra Clare

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

— Sheryl Crow

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

— Compay Segundo

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

— John Lennon