Music Quotes · Page 486

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

— Michael K. Williams

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

— Chet Baker

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

— Lin Brehmer

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

— Rob Zombie

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

— Madlib

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

— Anonymous

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was…

— Rakim

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

— Elizabeth Smart

You have to understand that I never thought I would have a career in music. That kind of thing didn't happen. Not…

— Anne Murray

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

Upcoming composers in Bollywood are falling prey to the volume game, without caring what they are doing to the history of Indian…

— Amaal Mallik

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of…

— Paul Lansky

“Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.”

— Barack Obama

“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally,…

— Bjork

Always feeling secondary and just being a voice rather than known as the song writer and artist... it's been a challenge to…

— Becky Hill

Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play…

— Gary Rossington

...my policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you…

— James Burton

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the…

— Charlie Hunter

Me and John Mayer met via a mutual connect, we were by the studio and he asked If I could play him…

— Snoh Aalegra

It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and Mustard. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to…

— Ella Mai

“You have only to feel the sacred music of your soul, to dance.”

— Connie Bowen

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

— John Arbuthnot

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream

— Pamela Des Barres

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

— Lesley Gore

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

— Celine Dion

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

— Tom Waits

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

— Evelyn Glennie

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”

— June Davidson

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

— Rita Ora

Turn up the music, and I feel just a little now. Turn up the music, don't turn me down.

— Rihanna

I like to make fans feel involved in my music, rather than me as a person.

— Jack Savoretti

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

— Brendan Fletcher

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

— Jason Mraz

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

— Reba McEntire