Music Quotes · Page 597

In music, trends are always rising and fading in popularity, but nostalgia never dies.

— Anthony Fantano

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

— Elaine Pagels

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

— Herbert von Karajan

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

— Madison Beer

A friend knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you forget the words.

— Anonymous

My melody, a little like Kenny G's, it's heavenly.

— Mac Miller

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

— E-40

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

— Larry Carlton

I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It's calm, but brave…

— Karol G

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him.…

— Miguel

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do…

— Elvis Costello

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I…

— Derek Waters

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the…

— Rufus Wainwright

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like…

— Norah Jones

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural…

— Ethel Merman

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

— David Bowie

“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came…

— Henry Miller

The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive.…

— Dutch Robinson

Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or…

— Rick Riordan

“From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be…

— Lady Gaga

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal…

— Big Sean

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've…

— Juanes

Let's face it songs are about love, which is, I love you, I don't love you, come here, go away, I miss…

— Jeff Barry

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

— Mitski

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

— Buddy Rich

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

— Judith Hill

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

— John McLaughlin

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

— Avery Brundage

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

— Lotic

When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.

— James Joyce

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

— Herb Alpert

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

— Kid Rock

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

— Belinda Carlisle

I love sufi music and that's the reason why I'm such a big fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

— Sonu Kakkar

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

— Jason Becker

Country music is therapy - it's therapy for the rural world.

— Lorrie Morgan

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

— Brian Wilson