Music Quotes · Page 816

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

— Trixie Mattel

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

— Rumi

So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to…

— Corbin Bleu

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer.…

— Letitia Wright

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to…

— Luc Ferrari

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

— Gucci Mane

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

— Josh Klinghoffer

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

— Al Jarreau

There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I…

— Richard Ashcroft

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs…

— Nick Cave

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the…

— Dallas Campbell

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I…

— Anonymous

“I want a big dark room you can barely move in, with bodies grinding close together. I want to hear a thousand…

— Jenny Downham

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that…

— Ronnie Montrose

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of…

— Cameron Crowe

Music is a gift. I'm so honoured and so grateful to be here today. Thank you for this opportunity.

— Justin Nozuka

Music means life and love in its purest form. It's about capturing your emotions and celebrating everything about life.

— Ananya Birla

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what…

— Henry Miller

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.”

— Hannah Harrington

“Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.”

— Debasish Mridha

Music has given me great solace in my times of hardship. It has also brought me fame and wealth, and I owe…

— Asha Bhosle

The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired…

— Xavier Rudd

For me, my songs have to be catchy and upbeat. I want songs that get stuck in people's heads for hours.

— Scheana Shay

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of…

— Elliott Smith

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

— Britt Daniel

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a…

— Grimes

I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I…

— Zella Day

For years I never had the courage to bring my written songs out. I had so many unreleased English songs.

— Neha Bhasin

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

— Jon Secada

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

— Hans Rosling

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established…

— Georges Braque

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and…

— Billie Eilish

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a…

— Shirley Manson

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

— Stephen J. Dubner

There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can…

— Grace Jones

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an…

— John Prine

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

— Matty Healy