Music Quotes · Page 594

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

— Peter Ustinov

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

— Alexandre Desplat

I could see no other way of doing something with my life apart from music.

— Andrew Ridgeley

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

— David Archuleta

“Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.”

— Julia Kristeva

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

— Sonny Rollins

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

— Halsey

It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.

— Machine Gun Kelly

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

— Michael Franks

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

I've been inspired by Bollywood, Pakistani music, qawwali for as long as I can remember - that came first.

— Naughty Boy

I'm a huge fan of Chennai - the culture, the musicians, the audience... Language is not a barrier. It is all about…

— Amit Trivedi

“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.…

— Echo and the Bunnymen

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.

— Patty Griffin

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was…

— Zadie Smith

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I…

— Irina Shayk

Alabama is somebody that I have always loved, but I think what is so cool about them - it's amazing, actually -…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think,…

— Andy Grammer

I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

... Michael Bloomfields' musical understanding was broad and deep, and he knew how to turn that understanding into communication .. his influence…

— Mark Naftalin

I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of…

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing…

— Roger Daltrey

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

— Kelly Price

My heart gets tight and it's almost like my soul gets congested if I'm not making music.

— Alison Sudol

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

— Robert Breault

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

— Priyanka Chopra

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

— Joe Louis Walker

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

— Bob Dylan

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

— Sia

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

— Shannon Bream

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

— Anonymous

My mum is quite young, so we actually have similar taste in music.

— Slowthai

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

— Anne Rice

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. Im going to invest in music.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

— Josh Tillman

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

— Emile M. Cioran

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

— Thomas Raymond Kelly