Music Quotes · Page 941

I did my first little kids' musical, 'The Sound of Music,' at 5, in a jungle gym, essentially. I was a made-up…

— Beanie Feldstein

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being…

— Joseph Campbell

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of…

— George Michael

Come come he calls you o soul oppressed and weary, come to the shadows of My desert rest; come walk with Me…

— Anonymous

“In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a…

— Lyn Hejinian

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.

— Chris Stapleton

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some…

— Joan Baez

“This revelation of Duport's musical leanings showed how, as ever, people can always produce something unexpected about themselves.”

— Anthony Powell

Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music,…

— Fat Joe

I'm playing the Great American Songbook - all the blue-sky, puffy-cloud classics. Music that's been missing. I want to be one of…

— Landau Eugene Murphy Jr

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we…

— Zac Hanson

“Emos don't dance much to our music. They actually hate snow patrol and Girls allowed. How could anyone hate them? I haven't…

— Dawn French

Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's…

— Lawrence Weschler

My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's…

— Ann Coulter

“The twins, Taylor and Tyler, threw confetti in my face, music began to blare, and then I saw the worst thing I'd…

— Jamie McGuire

My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in…

— Carl Gardner

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,…

— Talib Kweli

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my…

— Theophilus London

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce…

— Femi Kuti

I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

— Phil Keaggy

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

— Kevin Parker

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with…

— Maureen Forrester

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to…

— A. R. Rahman

I have been really fortunate to have had some amazing audiences who have just loved my music while I have performed.

— Tulsi Kumar

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers…

— Margaret Whiting

I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen…

— Tony Kanal

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

— Nigel Godrich

It really broke my heart when music took a back seat when I was concentrating more on films. It was like choosing…

— Shruti Haasan

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need…

— Michael Jackson

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

— William Christopher Handy

I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.

— Adnan Sami

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally,…

— Hugh Hopper

I grew up in musicals actually, and the last show I did in Dublin, 'Alice in Funderland', was a musical, and one…

— Sarah Greene

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

— Chuka Umunna

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks…

— Klaus Schulze

I'm mostly fine with anyone using my music for whatever. Everything's just compost that gets reused.

— Phil Elverum

I love music that has meaning behind it. I don't want to hear about how much money you're making or how many…

— Anonymous

“He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.”

— A.G. Howard

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without,…

— Nigel Kennedy

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting…

— Trey Anastasio