Music Quotes · Page 710

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to,…

— Alanis Morissette

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

— Anonymous

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

— F. Sionil Jose

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the…

— Zach Condon

I dance colors. Music shows me colors. I frequently say, 'I dance music; the music does not dance me.'

— Ariana DeBose

I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop…

— Kaskade

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being…

— John Cena

When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired…

— Ledisi

I usually like to try to find a title as quickly as I can and work from the title, and then it…

— Stephen Schwartz

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of…

— David Sanborn

I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense…

— Zach Condon

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so…

— B. B. King

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I…

— Randy Bachman

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I…

— Wagner Moura

When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage…

— Mary Oliver

“What about concerts and opera performances? Nowadays these bring him little pleasure [...] These people have no interest in classical music -…

— Jiri Weil

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play…

— Charles Mingus

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

— St. Lucia

I was very good at math and physics. And that's all. I can't do music, art, so there was not a lot…

— Donna Strickland

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

— Dick Dale

Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!

— Eddie Van Halen

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

— Judy Collins

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And…

— Kelis

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

— Romeo Santos

So many writers hated us because we represented mainstream America. Forget the music, they just didn't like the idea of us.

— Richard Carpenter

My music pulls from flamenco plenty; it wouldn't make sense without that genre. I also have a lot of love for flamenco…

— Rosalia

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop,…

— Jennifer Lopez

I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's…

— Stephen Hough

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

— Dave Grohl

Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on…

— Conor Oberst

Though I have started pursuing acting, there is no stopping for me from scoring music because music has always been my passion,…

— Vijay Antony

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but…

— Alan Cohen

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you, and I find that…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

— James Newton Howard

I had this idea of writing a sci-fi musical about a woman who falls in love with a robot and realizes it's…

— Michelle Zauner

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just…

— Nadine Coyle

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

— Curt Smith

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and…

— Joseph M. Kahn