Music Quotes · Page 798

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

— Ted Dwane

I just don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity…

— Rajesh Roshan

“But these clouds won’t leave Walk away Barely breathing As I’m lying on the floor Take my heart As you’re leaving I…

— Mayday Parade

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a…

— Chet Faker

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the…

— Nelson Mandela

I can sign things that I love that may not be selling millions of singles but that are just awesome music.

— Dr. Luke

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

— Helen Vendler

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.

— Rob Halford

“The trend toward narcissistic flair has been responsible in large part for smiting rock with the superstar virus, which revolves around the…

— Lester Bangs

Labels never made Mobb Deep, Mobb Deep made the labels. We was always poppin'. Even if we ain't had a record deal,…

— Mobb Deep

“ye are a great piper. I'm not fit to blow in the same kingdom with ye. Body of me! ye have mair…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in…

— Zedd

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening…

— Jacques Villeneuve

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a…

— Thelonious Monk

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I…

— Gary Clark, Jr

George had performed musical alchemy, distilling the essence of Christmas into music. Adding a lyric which told the tale of betrayed love…

— Andrew Ridgeley

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love,…

— Debbie Gibson

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help…

— Bazzi

We're always just trying to keep ourselves interested enough to make music that will excite other people in the same way that…

— Ron Mael

We were a musical family, and we had record players. It would be a family thing to listen to music together.

— Rag'n'Bone Man

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

— Don Cornelius

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

— Coco Jones

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

— Dave Grohl

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can…

— Jerry Goldsmith

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is…

— Flume

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

— Rick Ross

I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it's that consistent…

— Brad Paisley

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music.…

— Charlyne Yi

I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

— Jake Paul

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

— Charles Hazlewood

I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the…

— Charli XCX

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.

— Richard Ashcroft

You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

— Jack Antonoff

“What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how…

— Paul Jarvis

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

— Leonard Cohen

We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas.

— Ted Dwane

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a…

— Eugenio Montale