Music Quotes · Page 612

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

— Amanda Shires

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

— Alex Van Halen

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

— Robert Plant

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

— Tim Minchin

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

— Mike McCready

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

— Lord Byron

Music loud: Check! Drink in hand: Check! Smile on face: Check! Saturday mode activated!

— Arjun Loveable

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm…

— A. R. Rahman

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

— Jack Garratt

“Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.”

— Thea Harrison

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Gettin' It' is another song that means a lot to me because I got to work with George Clinton who's always been…

— Too Short

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

— Kacey Musgraves

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of…

— Concha Buika

“bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of…

— Rob Sheffield

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out…

— Arthur Godfrey

My first album was more about me making a statement, as I felt like I was kind of stuck in the smaller…

— Maya Jane Coles

The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you…

— M. Shadows

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the…

— Rosanne Cash

It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter…

— Cheon Eunbi

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country…

— Sturgill Simpson

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

— Angie Stone

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.

— Tash Sultana

I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to.

— Mark Morrison

“Beware the flatterers of the world...for what is music to the ears may be poison to the soul.”

— Henry H. Neff

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

— Lydia Lunch

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

— Georg Solti

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

— Michael Kiwanuka

You learn a lot about people when youlisten to songs that mean something to them.

— Ritu Ghatourey

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

— Miguel

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

— Merle Travis

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

— Pat Metheny

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

— Corbin Bleu

“Did you hear the one about me giving a shit? ‘Cause if I ever did I don’t remember it!”

— Five Finger Death Punch

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

— Bill Monroe

I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

— Flume