Music Quotes · Page 555

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

— Thomas Beecham

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

— Sondre Lerche

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

— Hayley Williams

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

— Alex Winter

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

— Sampha

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

— Phife Dawg

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

— Charles Koppelman

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a…

— Rhys Ifans

I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.

— Mike Krieger

I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

— Kim Wilde

I quit music and decided I was going to work a 9-to-5 job in advertising... which in New York City is more…

— Michelle Zauner

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making…

— Bebe Rexha

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When…

— Charles Lamb

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to…

— Maria Callas

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking…

— Tony Visconti

The music video director really wanted to incorporate the imagery of guns into 'Nega Dola' because the lyrics are very aggressive. It…

— BoA

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never…

— John Clare

It's important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are…

— Lzzy Hale

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you…

— Kenny Loggins

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul…

— Wayne Dyer

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

— Thomas Beecham

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

— Jonathan Demme

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

— Branford Marsalis

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

— Elizabeth Price

I listen to a lot of music and since I have to travel a lot, all my music is on my phone.

— Diana Penty

I love music, and I love sports. I played sports all throughout school.

— Elliot Knight

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

— Oliver Sim

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

— Tyler Hilton

It's weird that I like the music of the people who were on drugs when they wrote it.

— Hassana Raddahi

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

— Mark E. Smith

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

— Albert Schweitzer

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

— Johnny Winter

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

— Barry Harris