Music Quotes · Page 591

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

— Taylor Swift

“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.”

— Atticus

I have always been infatuated with country music.

— R. Kelly

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

— El-P

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

— Metta World Peace

I try not to think about the success, because it's pressure to continue making music.

— Nicky Jam

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

— Vivek Shraya

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors.…

— Albert Finney

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't…

— Rupert Friend

“I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've…

— Mark Helprin

Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got…

— Robert Trujillo

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm…

— Tituss Burgess

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

— Charles Lamb

Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many…

— Lauren Mayberry

I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had…

— Washed Out

Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid…

— Ginuwine

“. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And…

— Pete Docter

I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with…

— Stephen Malkmus

“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows…

— Nick Hornby

The first scene in Annette is called 'So May We Start,' and, in our original version, it was a piece of music…

— Russell Mael

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

— Dudley Moore

“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”

— Duke Ellington

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

— Joe Cocker

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

— Grace Chatto

Turn up the music, just turn it up loud. Turn up the music, I need it in my life, yeah.

— Chris Brown

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

— Dolly Parton

I don't tend to listen to music when I hike because I like the peace.

— Michaela Strachan

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

— Anonymous

Kiss is autograph of luv, music of affection and sign of seduction.

— Butterfly_Kisses

Even in the 80s, it was life music! Even in the 90s, there was still life music being made.

— 9th Wonder

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

— Andy Dunn

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

My earphones are what set me free from all the bullshit.

— Anonymous

Love songs are helpful. We've always needed as much love as we could possibly need.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Driving somebedy's car is a joke because you listen to their favourite music

— Musa Nkutha

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

— Chris Shiflett