Music Quotes · Page 543

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

— Jimi Hendrix

“That summer her memories were turned into melodies as he sung his way to her heart <3”

— Elizabeth Heller

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

— King Tuff

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

— Mary Webb

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

— Nita Strauss

We are kind of country, but we do cater to louder kinds of music.

— Hank Williams III

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

— Q-Tip

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

— Gregg Allman

You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But…

— Jim James

All these little sayings that my family has said my entire life somehow make their way into my music. I can't escape…

— Lainey Wilson

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

— Yoshi Wada

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who…

— James Taylor

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could…

— Phil Elverum

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've…

— Jane Monheit

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to…

— Darren Hayes

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you…

— Ry Cooder

If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a…

— Jonny Greenwood

I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because,…

— Arca

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing…

— Angus Young

“Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I…

— Haruki Murakami

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good…

— Robert Plant

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with…

— Bat for Lashes

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate…

— David Duchovny

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I want my music to break every border and reach every person.

— Koffee

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Leonard Cohen

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

— Anonymous

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

— Joel Grey

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

— Trent Reznor

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

— Vinny Appice

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

— Stephen King

Ain't nothin sadder than a pretty girl who doesn't like country music…

— Lance Heuer

My music career is why I moved to New York in the first place.

— Renee Rapp

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

— Thom Yorke

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

— Rodney Atkins

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

— Angela Kinsey

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

— Jan Hammer