Music Quotes · Page 508

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

— William Westney

I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems.

— Sly Stone

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

“Music is life, without the beat in your heart you would be dead.”

— Kalae Salazar

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

— Rick James

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

— Mary Lou Williams

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

— P. J. Soles

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

— Norah Jones

I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself.

— Yo Gotti

“For me it's not about money [about music]. It's about the experience of buying an album by a band you love. Something…

— Steven Battelle

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

— Samuel Barber

“I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful…

— Delano Johnson

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be…

— William Beckett

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the…

— Fantastic Negrito

Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand…

— Paul Dano

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

— J. Robbins

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's a beautiful day, the sun is up, the music's playing And even if it started raining You won't hear this girl…

— Micheal Buble

“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory…

— Hermann Hesse

My dad went to medical school, and when he studied he listened to music so he has a ridiculous CD collection. That…

— William Clark Green

“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing.…

— Siri Mitchell

I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You…

— Joanna Coles

I love Nashville. I do. It's not home, like Detroit is obviously home for me, but stuff I like to do, I…

— Uncle Kracker

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

— Julie Harris

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

— Andy Grammer

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

— Erik Satie

You ain't nuthin like a memory, atleast it hangs around

— Brantley Gilbert

“The woman’s entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations.”

— Gillian Flynn

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

— Dolly Parton

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

— apl.de.ap

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

— Charles Kelley

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

— Bonobo

Music is my first love, and it's not something I'll ever stop.

— Jihae

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

— Christian Louboutin

“There’s no melody in life that is sweeter than the sound of success and accomplishment.”

— Author Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

— Frank Iero

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

— Ace Frehley

Donkey praised the beauty of camel and camel praised the melody of donkey.

— Yssubramanyam