Music Quotes · Page 944

I don't really want to do movies, but I tried. I don't feel like acting is my thing; I think music is…

— Tech N9ne

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic…

— Howard Snell

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support…

— Alan Jackson

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring…

— Eric Nam

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not…

— Trombone Shorty

“the point of writing music and experiencing music isn’t to make people comfortable necessarily”

— Philip Glass

I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything,…

— Jacob Collier

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I…

— Michael Hersch

When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of…

— Ricky Reed

Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot…

— Joseph M. Kahn

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the…

— Serj Tankian

Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater…

— David Platt

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he…

— Stromae

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious…

— Tamara Tunie

I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do…

— Butch Walker

“A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd…

— Annie Proulx

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

— Maynard James Keenan

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music…

— Elvis Costello

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no…

— Kellie Pickler

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

— Bret Michaels

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of…

— Bono

I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want…

— Lil Skies

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just…

— Herbie Mann

“To be a vessel, a conduit to a collective unconscious where all the music had seemingly existed for eternity, seemed a fantastic…

— Devin Townsend

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have…

— Ketch Secor

I'm happy to be associated with the Times Thyagaraja Awards, which takes Carnatic music to the young generation.

— Shobana

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that…

— Trent Reznor

You have to be serious, and you must have a constantly inquiring mind. But I find it's new music that really stretches…

— Julian Bream

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

— Paulo Coelho

You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.

— Black Thought

I think you should do Bollywood once you are all into your own market. Doing a Bollywood song for a particular actor…

— Guru Randhawa

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from…

— Christian Marclay

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people…

— James Weldon Johnson

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

— Marina and the Diamonds

I love pop songs. One that I've heard a lot is 'Shape of You' by Ed Sheeran. I also love mariachi songs…

— Anthony Gonzalez

I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in…

— J Tillman

“tried to reenliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,”† an original Kellogg composition,”

— Mary Roach

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can…

— Alanis Morissette

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off…

— Dana Reinhardt

I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are…

— King Tuff