Music Quotes · Page 567

“Artists make normal songs. Then Radio stations, TV and DJ’s turn those normal songs into hits”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

— Charley Pride

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

— Brian May

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

— John Keats

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

— Layne Staley

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

— Jermaine Dupri

Restarting the whole song over just because you missed your favorite part.

— Anonymous

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

— Brigham Young

“I also knew that music was pretty much the only thing in life that he felt was worth the hassle.”

— Rainbow Rowell

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow…

— Marion Cotillard

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

— Moby

My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

— Jack Garratt

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

— Chuck Berry

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into…

— Barry Finnerty

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of…

— Frederic Chopin

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and…

— Alexander Hanson

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because…

— Julie Taymor

I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually…

— Butterfly Boucher

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and…

— Jason Aldean

Powerful how some songs bring to the mind,vivid pictures of wonderful people in our lives. The pictures so clear that we could…

— Anonymous

I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but…

— Eric Nam

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in…

— Daniel Rossen

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates…

— Malala Yousafzai

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur

— Axwell

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian.”

— Kate Stewart

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

— Kygo

“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.”

— Lauren DeStefano

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

— August Alsina

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

— Matt Bomer

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

— Lou Doillon

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

— Charlie Byrd

There is always a market for a good song and a good melody.

— Richard Carpenter

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

— Darius Rucker

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

— May Sarton

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

— Lari White

There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

— Damian Kulash

As regards rap music, I believe that the c is silent.

— Dr Tony Giles

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx