Music Quotes · Page 923

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

— Sia

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

— Bob Dylan

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America…

— Stephen Malkmus

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

— MO

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

— Johnny Otis

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

— Tom Harrell

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

— Coy Bowles

“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,”

— Walter Isaacson

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me…

— Boethius

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film…

— Paul Gambaccini

When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and…

— Finn Andrews

I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows…

— Cassadee Pope

I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My…

— J Balvin

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the…

— Ken Robinson

To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as…

— Michael Doucet

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you…

— Jon Foreman

It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have…

— Synyster Gates

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

— Trey Anastasio

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been…

— Sophie Blackall

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

— SZA

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and…

— Christina Grimmie

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all…

— Barry White

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people…

— Jakob Dylan

Though 'KK' is an urban film and has more scope for fast-paced numbers, I've made sure that there's a bit of melody…

— Vidyasagar

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

— RuPaul

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music,…

— Robinson Jeffers

I was skewed and manipulated for years. I was giving my heart and soul to music, while my confidence was being constantly…

— Raye

I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I…

— Karishma Tanna

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell…

— Schoolboy Q

“Even the second time around, the lyrics and melody reached through my ears, bypassed my brain, and went straight to my heart,…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not…

— Pharrell Williams

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

— Matisyahu

The Internet might be killing the business for music labels, but it is working well for independent artists. I released my songs…

— Sonu Kakkar

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

— Charles Bukowski

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people…

— Steve Grand

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of…

— Katie Melua

“I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”

— Mitch Albom