Music Quotes · Page 509

I wrote Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

— Daniel Johns

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

— Rosalia

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

— Flume

I am completely invested in my music - committed to it full time.

— Ananya Birla

I have been blessed with musical visions and the ability to harness them.

— Bill Ward

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

— Leon Russell

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

— Nina Simone

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely…

— Tracy Chapman

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my…

— Charles de Lint

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much…

— Johnny Winter

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just…

— John Lennon

I'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.

— Jinkx Monsoon

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

— David Lee Roth

The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it…

— Jerry Heller

“There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.”

— Steve Maraboli

Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with…

— Tom Lehrer

I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think…

— Aesop Rock

I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel…

— Brandi Carlile

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those…

— Dean Wareham

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action…

— Ice Cube

The 60's started spinning into a whirlwind, and outside of some recognition for my music, I felt like I was living inside…

— Laura Nyro

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a…

— Robert Plant

I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always…

— Adam Schlesinger

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

— Sappho

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

— Fiona Apple

Rain calls for sad and slow country songs all day...

— Anonymous

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

— Brian Eno

“Ah, kiss me, love, and miss me, love, and dry your bitter tears. (Irish Pub Song)”

— Nora Roberts

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

— Tommy Shaw

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

— Joshua Bell

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

— Maynard Ferguson

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

— Alex Van Halen

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

— Gabriella Wilson

Every song ends, but is that a reason not to enjoy the music?

— Anonymous

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

— Neil Diamond

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

— Bruce Springsteen

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

— Kailash Kher