Music Quotes · Page 599

A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.

— Charli XCX

So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.

— Jeff Gutt

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.

— Jeongyeon

There are so many talented Israelis - musicians and actors and everything.

— Dennis Lloyd

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

— Diljit Dosanjh

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

— Keith Jarrett

“All of a sudden we heard loud, violent rap music blaring from the porch”

— D.A. Young

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

I understand that a corporation needs to make money, but this was never business to me. My music was always so heartfelt…

— Raye

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and…

— Joan Jett

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can…

— Nicole Scherzinger

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

— Robert Fripp

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And…

— Edgar Lee Masters

“I was not jealous of his intelligence — he is entirely superficial, which is why he never knows what to look like.…

— Nico

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern…

— Jean-Luc Godard

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a…

— Frank Gehry

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

— Henry Rollins

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical…

— Laufey

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians…

— Itay Talgam

“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,…

— George R.R. Martin

“As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long…

— Jack Smith

Sometimes people can get lost within the crowd, but we have to remember that ballroom dancing is an intimate sport where people…

— Cheryl Burke

“According to The Echo Nest, a “music intelligence start-up,” your music-based Code Halos can tell much more about you than just what…

— Malcolm Frank

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

— Ray J

I depend on my memory to learn scripts and songs.

— Leslie Uggams

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

— Van Cliburn

Some people say music's good for the soul and I believe that's right.

— Fats Domino

I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.

— Michael Giacchino

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

— Anthony Kiedis

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

— Fred Schneider

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

— Kiernan Shipka

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

— Gloria Naylor

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

— Will Champion

When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

I figure that most people will remember me for the songs I wrote.

— J. J. Cale

I wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

— Arijit Singh

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

— John Mellencamp

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

— Craig David