Music Quotes · Page 605

I've seen girls start playing music who have told me they were inspired by me.

— Soccer Mommy

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

— Shelby Lynne

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

— Andrew Bird

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

— Pia Toscano

I admit, music is my first love. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music.

— Scatman Crothers

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

— Alexander Pope

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

— Nick Cave

I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

— Trombone Shorty

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

— Vidyasagar

The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it…

— Josephine de La Baume

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for…

— Charli XCX

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's…

— Marilou

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo…

— Bryan Ferry

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the…

— Jonathan Miles

My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.

— Hope Sandoval

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's…

— Art Garfunkel

The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters - a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc.…

— Dick Costolo

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…

— Rob Sheffield

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the…

— Nayvadius Cash

I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I…

— Jennifer Lee

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I…

— Janis Ian

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm…

— Brett Dennen

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.

— Donovan

I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.

— Gia Coppola

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

— Miles Davis

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

— Howard Roberts

The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.

— Crystal Bowersox

Im so happy because today I found my friends theyre in my head.

— Kurt Cobain

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

— John Hughes

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

— Nicolas Cage

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

— Carter Burwell

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

— Klaus Schulze

Love is now a fake song that stuck in my mind and just killed my heart..

— Mielya Saladdin

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

— Lorde

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

— Cathleen Falsani

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

— Jason Mraz

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

— Dave Brubeck

My titillations have no foot-notes And their memorials are the phrases Of idiosyncratic music.

— Wallace Stevens