Music Quotes · Page 585

It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

— Jonathan McReynolds

When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day.

— James Murphy

Hey, niggers! Turn that jungle music down! Woogie boogie, nigger! Woogie boogie!

— Dave Chappelle

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

Todays a day where I'm soo happy and all I wanna do is laguh and sing

— Anonymous

He makes me so glad that music is not nearly as lucrative as it once was.

— Soulja Boy

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

— Oscar Wilde

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

— Tony Bennett

Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel…

— Varg Vikernes

I'm someone that maybe people who don't know a lot about me actually know more of my songs than they think they…

— Amy Macdonald

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are…

— Caroline Polachek

Getting to see the impact of the music that I write and people having moments with their friends is cool.

— Maisie Peters

Dance music always goes through its changes; many styles come have their light and go back to the underground 'til it happens…

— Little Louie Vega

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who…

— Chris Cornell

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

— Sheryl Lee

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that.…

— Britney Spears

I know it's crazy but I can't deny You shot me in the heart with an alibi I know I've been a…

— Iration

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social…

— Maria Montessori

I always knew I wanted to do music, but it took me a long time to figure out how to exactly do…

— Skylar Grey

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture…

— Lawrence Lessig

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not…

— Rufus Wainwright

I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to…

— Howard Shore

“The alley and the music all fell away, and there was nothing but her and the rain and Jace, his hands on…

— Cassandra Clare

“perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want.

— Ray Toro

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

— Mike White

“You take the breath right out of me You left a hole where my heart should be”

— Breaking Benjamin

'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

— G-Eazy

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

— Goldie

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

— Obie Trice

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

— Robert Bolt

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

— Erin Foster

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

— Elliott Smith

Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It would be cool to custom-write music for some kind of story. That'd be cool.

— Deadmau5

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

— Lester Bangs

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

— Heinrich Heine

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

— Alan Menken

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

— Carolyn Mackler