Music Quotes · Page 558

We grew up listening to a wide variety of music.

— Rose

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I always love to use exciting colors from cultural music from around the world in my scores.

— Bear McCreary

Sometimes you can do a million songs, and if they're not good, you're just wasting your time.

— Mustard

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

If my heart could play a song for you. It would still be the same song.

— Lars Propst

I guess music in general is the transportation business.

— Howard Rheingold

I honestly believe art and music saved me. Art and music saved my life. I am blessed.

— Goldie

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and…

— Misty Copeland

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

I have tremendous respect for Pakistani artistes, they are very talented, especially where music sense and melody is concerned.

— Kumar Sanu

My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest…

— Megan Park

I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen…

— Brian Fallon

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to…

— Madeleine Peyroux

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and…

— Dr. Dre

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist…

— Sheena Iyengar

It's such hard work doing a musical. I did my first musical last year, performing in The Producers, and it was a…

— Reece Shearsmith

“For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most…

— W.H. Auden

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity…

— Al Jarreau

Music feels like therapy, actually. A lot of people come out of a therapy session and feel like a weight has been…

— Tim Presley

One minute I'm the punk rock tattooed guy who had 'Walkin' on the Sun' and all these other songs , and then…

— Steve Harwell

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say,…

— Chance the Rapper

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all…

— John Romero

“On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with…

— Pattie Boyd

I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.

— Danny Gokey

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

— Sabrina Carpenter

I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.

— Benjamin Clementine

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

— Van Morrison

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

— Les Claypool

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

— John Darnielle

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

— Sid Vicious

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

— Jonathan Davis

“You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”

— John Lennon

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

— Robyn

The South is a place for music, dance, and culture.

— Jackie Shroff

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

— Joe Satriani

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

— Debbie Harry

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

— Mark Ronson