Music Quotes · Page 729

Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.

— Rich Eisen

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

— Kemp Muhl

What actually should matter is having artists who build fanbases and sell out shows and stream music, regardless of what genre it…

— Raye

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say…

— Ken Burns

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

— Danny Brown

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't…

— Ray Manzarek

I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.

— Arca

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from…

— will.i.am

Everybody loves music and it's fun - you feel like you're not working out. It makes the time go by quick and…

— Julianne Hough

Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.…

— Michael E. DeBakey

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and…

— John Waters

“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words…

— Anonymous

I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be…

— James Vincent McMorrow

If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as…

— Jade Bird

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…

— John Herschel

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can…

— James Iha

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can…

— Anonymous

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if…

— Andris Nelsons

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

— Jack White

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

— Jon Fishman

I come to America because if you're a rock 'n' roll musician you should come here every chance you get.

— Gord Downie

I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing…

— Mark Strong

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

— Allen Toussaint

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

— Elliott Smith

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

— Pixie Lott

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the…

— Mr. Lif

I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.

— Colson Whitehead

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music…

— Mick Jagger

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

— A.C. Newman

We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.

— Rainbow Rowell

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also…

— Kevin Young

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

“like sunlight under their skins, they want to be loved" from the poem STAY in RidingTheEscalator”

— Jay Woodman

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

— Delbert McClinton

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll…

— John Oates

“The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you…

— James Jones