Music Quotes · Page 788

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I…

— Travis Barker

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out…

— Thurston Moore

Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the…

— M. Jayachandran

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

— Tom Waits

There's a large difference between someone listen to music by ears and someone enjoy it by heart

— Black Son Beats

Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'

— Henry Mancini

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything…

— Taylor Swift

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was…

— Lea Salonga

The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back.…

— Heather Headley

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were…

— Cyndi Lauper

The journey after Katrina, it opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. Coming from a rooftop to going to…

— Big Freedia

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general…is that enterprise that stops our minds…

— Leonard Cohen

“An associate of mine named William Congreve once wrote a very sad play that begins with the line 'Music has charms to…

— Lemony Snicket

Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt…

— Sergei Prokofiev

Music was language in our house. It was air…I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first…

— Renee Fleming

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird…

— Planningtorock

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another…

— J. G. Holland

Music full of relevant and money's overrated. That's why I spend it like I look at it with hatred.

— Wale

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

— Kate Bush

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment…

— Alban Berg

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because…

— Shakira

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes…

— Jared Leto

I been doing music since I was 15 years old. I found it intriguing, just from liking and listening to music.

— Gunna

The dark night, Bright shiny lights, Music bumping in the background, Let the dj wisp me away from my stress

— Jasmine Dale

All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see…

— Alessia Cara

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

— David Byrne

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

— Jonny Greenwood

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make…

— Jana Kramer

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

— James Corden

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of…

— Jonny Lang

I'm just looking for that one song that I know everybody's going to be like, 'Damn, that's a good song.'

— Eric Nam

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn

I'm from Florida, and my family somehow is really into country music. We're all southern in a way: My grandpa hunts, my…

— Cassadee Pope

Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.

— James Arthur

My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to…

— Kendall Jenner

To me, soul music is anything that is made from the heart, and therefore moves the listener; it's not overly self-aware, and…

— Sunny Ozell

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious…

— Francis Bacon

I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a…

— Tobias Forge