Music Quotes · Page 846

There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

— David B. Haight

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't…

— Mark Rippetoe

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,…

— Yuja Wang

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music…

— Harry Connick, Jr

The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level.

— Mark Manson

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

— Rick Derringer

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to…

— Sasha Velour

“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many…

— Deb Caletti

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it…

— Donny Osmond

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine…

— Aaron Bruno

Friends came on the road, came on tour, came in my music videos; I got in the studio with them. I'm a…

— Maggie Rogers

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own…

— Corey Taylor

I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk…

— Ted Nugent

To be honest with you, the fact that people vibe with my music is just a really positive byproduct of something that…

— Jessie Reyez

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give…

— Mac DeMarco

I think at some point in life, everything in life has let me down. But music was always my constant. Like, when…

— Jelly Roll

Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

— Matisyahu

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

You can get jaded in the music business, but I have so much passion, and I try to do music with different…

— Philip Bailey

I am en-lighted by the music of life. for my happiness is not the basis of life's offering but the renewal power…

— Edward Shaylitsa

I mean what I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80s music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50s and…

— Bear McCreary

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even…

— Tupac Shakur

We are the walking dead swallow the lies we're fed I'll cover your eyes I'll cover your eyes I'll cover the truth…

— Papa Roach

Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a…

— Penny Junor

Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be…

— Scatman Crothers

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

— Michael Longley

I think it is the variety in south Indian film music that has captured the imagination of even north Indian listeners.

— Devi Sri Prasad

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any…

— Ben Lee

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that…

— Talib Kweli

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

— Cindy Wilson

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be…

— Keith Urban

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music…

— Dave Brubeck

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both…

— Bob Seger

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be…

— Ricky Reed

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with…

— Henry Mancini

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't.…

— Alan Cooper

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or…

— Brian Wilson