Music Quotes · Page 777

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and…

— Amy Grant

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has…

— Illinois Jacquet

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

— Mary Steenburgen

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to…

— Rod Wave

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

— Bazzi

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

— Les Claypool

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have…

— PartyNextDoor

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important…

— Jason Mraz

Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone…

— Devendra Banhart

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and…

— Billy Corgan

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role…

— Joshua Henry

Music is the great motivator, stimulator and resuscitator. It heals, unites and ignites. It gets into my soul and affects me whole.…

— Nicole Bonomi

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love…

— Regina Spektor

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,…

— David McCullough

There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are…

— Manika

I started with soul music and icons like Aretha Franklin and Etta James and then moved to R&B and artists such as…

— Netta Barzilai

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a…

— Raphael Saadiq

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country…

— Lindsey Haun

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

— Diana Krall

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry…

— Stacie Orrico

I love heavy-metal music more than anything in the world, but I'm equally drawn to Michael Buble or Michael Feinstein.

— Rob Halford

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless,…

— Paul Morley

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous…

— Cardi B

I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

— Kelela

“We danced, we took shots, we drank, we ate food, we shouted at each other over the music, we fell down, we…

— Tabatha Beshears

They sit and stare and stare and sit, Until they're hypnotized by it, Until they're absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly…

— Aashi

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able…

— Ronnie Milsap

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs…

— Kristin Hersh

A lot of people make records where there are a couple songs worth listening to and you skip through the rest, and…

— Jason Isbell

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

— Franz Liszt

You can't make just foot-tapping numbers or take inspiration from Western music. Such songs won't work.

— Kumar Sanu

Thanks to my family and guru. They were quite confident that I could do it and think about music as a full-time…

— Sid Sriram

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

— Bruce Springsteen

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost…

— Steve Winwood

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and…

— James McCartney

I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

— Charli XCX

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

— Oscar Wilde

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

— Anonymous

Music has been my passion since I was a little girl and now I have my first platinum record at 19. No…

— Ariana Grande