Music Quotes · Page 614

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

— Pete Seeger

Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear are still inside my head.”

— Richard Rodgers

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

— Henry Mancini

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

— Talib Kweli

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

— Jack White

If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.

— Lord Voldemort

An hour of hearing Calypso music is not enough for me personally!

— Cedella Marley

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to…

— Tinie Tempah

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time…

— James Blake

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity…

— Richard Dawkins

“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel…

— Don Campbell

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

— K. Flay

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz,…

— Lady Gaga

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

— Jerry Harrison

“In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they…

— Sarah Brightman

I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if…

— Iman Shumpert

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a…

— Joe Hill

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does…

— Q-Tip

I've been invited to share the stage with amazing performers from all over the Europe, celebrating music and song writing. They are…

— Sam Ryder

Doin' music, musicians and artists, we have the advantage of doin' something that is our passion. At the same time it's fun,…

— Tyga

You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I lived 90 miles South of Nashville when I was broadcasting on a radio station in Huntsville, Alabama, early in my career,…

— Bill Hagerty

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

— Kid Cudi

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

— Isaac Stern

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

— Dan Hawkins

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

— Joan Chen

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

— Donna McKechnie

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

— Anthony Kiedis

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

— Paul Taylor

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

— Zubin Mehta

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

— Ryan Tedder

A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext.

— Bear McCreary

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

— Lee Trevino

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

— David Mitchell

Sometimes you go through those nights where music is your only friend

— Sushan Sharma

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

— Nat King Cole

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

— Stanley Jordan

My biggest fear was, who would I be without music?

— Mase