Music Quotes · Page 607

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

— John Coltrane

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

— Phil Woods

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

Doctors say I'm the illest, 'cause I suffer from realness.

— Jay-z

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

— Anonymous

If you have the burning desire to do music, the live performance is one of the major parts.

— B. J. Thomas

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

— Brad Paisley

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

— RuPaul

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

— Miles Davis

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

— John Lennon

I'm proud to be a fag who rides dicks and sucks them , and my music is as gay as me, the…

— Lil Wayne

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

— Shayan Italia

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

— Miles Davis

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's…

— Amy Ray

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

— Harrison Birtwistle

The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"

— Nicki Minaj

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I…

— Jihae

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically…

— Peter R. Grant

“[Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a…

— Patti Smith

I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to…

— Bertie Carvel

Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it.…

— Melissa Febos

“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and…

— James Joyce

I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I…

— Eric Hutchinson

I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn't motivate me…

— Demetri Martin

I'd just like to be remembered as a huge music lover.

— Mike Portnoy

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

— Barbra Streisand

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

— Billy Sheehan

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

— Jay-Z

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

— Mandy Patinkin

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

— Prodigy

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Music was all around me from the time I came into the world.

— Gabriella Wilson

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

— Anonymous

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

— Richard Schiff

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

— Steven Wilson

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

— Sade Adu

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

— Rosanna Arquette

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

— Dusty Hill

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler