Music Quotes · Page 691

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

— Fab Five Freddy

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along,…

— Mike Fontenot

Whoever likes my music, I'm gonna reciprocate that same love back to them. I'm not trying to alienate anybody.

— JPEGMAFIA

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow...…

— Nina Simone

Everyone has to work hard, there is no short-cut. If you keep working hard there are a lot of musicians on a…

— Neeti Mohan

“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual…

— Terry Pratchett

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time,…

— Luc Ferrari

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it…

— Clairo

One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about…

— Julien Baker

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our…

— Charles Kingsley

I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version…

— Tracy Lawrence

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…

— Bob Dylan

When I do Gaelic music, I've learned about Gaelic culture; I've tried to learn the language. Whenever I do mouth music and…

— Rhiannon Giddens

“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“There are very few things that live in both this world and the world of dreams. Most are gods, angels and demons.…

— Robert Fanney

Robby had a flamenco and folk music background. I was so enamored with watching Robby's fingers crawl across the flamenco guitar strings…

— John Densmore

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my…

— Kim Nam-joon

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a…

— Phil Elverum

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze,…

— Stephan Jenkins

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot…

— Jimmy Page

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

— Jose Bergamin

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never…

— Nicholas Hammond

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a…

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

— Dave Matthews

Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I dance because there's no greater feeling in the world than moving to a piece of music and letting the rest of…

— Anonymous

The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the…

— Benmont Tench

People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?

— Lil Yachty

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do…

— James Taylor

“If country music has taught me anything, it's that getting drunk probably isn't the best method of dealing with heartbreak. But I'm…

— Ruth Emmie Lang

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind…

— Jimi Hendrix

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop,…

— Alan Vega

I have got a lot of appreciation from people and they really like my voice in Sufi songs, so I will continue…

— Javed Ali

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

— David Cassidy

I have people who look after me and help me when I'm out of town. But when I'm at home in LA…

— Carmen Electra

Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.

— Ranvir Shorey

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish…

— George Crumb