Music Quotes · Page 495

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.”

— Ashley Wiger

Yes, it's true. I'm soon going to direct music videos for our company T-series.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

— Blake Judd

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

— Alexander Moody Stuart

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

— Robbie Robertson

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost…

— Merzbow

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've…

— Stephen Malkmus

I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.

— Dave East

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever…

— Doc Watson

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in…

— Gillian Welch

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

— Stewart Brand

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

— Joseph Bruce

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come…

— Narada Michael Walden

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across…

— Perfume Genius

The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt…

— Robert Davi

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time,…

— Jimmy Page

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that…

— Amaal Mallik

“If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!' When the music closed, she clapped until…

— Katherine Rundell

In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is,…

— Adam Young

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance,…

— Richard Meale

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were…

— Bono

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

Excuse me, could you shut the f*ck up? This is my favorite part of the song.

— Kiana J Wilson

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

— Mickey Hart

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

— Zara Larsson

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music...

— Kurt Rosenwinkel

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

— Ryan Hurd

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

— Jencarlos Canela

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

— Sting

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

— Sheryl Crow

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

— Ray Charles

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

— Compay Segundo

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

— Patrick Stump

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

— Calvin Harris