Music Quotes · Page 580

I like music where someone is trying to get their power back.

— Rico Nasty

Chilling out and getting ready to shoot our music videos.

— Dahvie Vanity

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

— John Philip Sousa

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

— Mary Matalin

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

— Pat Metheny

I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

— Tony Oller

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

— Ricky Nelson

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

— Harry James

I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is…

— Rahki

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls…

— Taylor Swift

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general…

— Christopher Bollen

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

— Kevin Parker

When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate…

— Washed Out

Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves -…

— Tom Junod

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song.…

— Buck Owens

I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two…

— Elena Tonra

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The…

— Peter Gabriel

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's…

— Bruce Cockburn

I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right…

— Daisy Whitney

You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to…

— Jon Bellion

I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so…

— Charlie Haden

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And…

— Alan Alda

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played…

— Jools Holland

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

— Tipper Gore

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

— Krist Novoselic

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

— Joey Jordison

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

— Katey Sagal

I love pop music, but my issue for a while was the way fandoms operate.

— Ethel Cain

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

— Dexter Gordon

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

— Crystal Bowersox

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

— Wilson Pickett

I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.

— Shawn Mendes

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

— Joey Jordison

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

— Shawn Crahan

A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

— Irving Berlin

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

— Lisa Stansfield

I like a man who can move to music. Like my husband.

— Heidi Allen