Music Quotes

"I've always been a bit of a chameleon with my music, and I love exploring different styles and sounds"

"I'm always experimenting with different sounds and trying to find new ways to express myself through my music"

"When I see people enjoying my music and having a good time, it makes me feel incredibly grateful and motivated to continue doing what I love"

Alan Walker, Musician

"I want my music to have a positive impact on people's lives, and I hope that it can help them overcome their challenges and feel better about themselves"

Alan Walker, Musician

"When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others"

Alan Walker, Musician

"Music is always going to be my first love, but acting is something I'm interested in pursuing"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"The best thing about music is that it can make you feel nostalgic even if you weren't there when the song was written"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy"

Gary Wright, Musician

"I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed"

Elijah Wood, Actor

"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women"

Lita Ford, Musician

"Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"How can German music not be represented by an article?"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it"

Rihanna, Musician

"I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'"

Link Wray, Musician

"I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music"

Link Wray, Musician

"But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything"

Link Wray, Musician

"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I got country music in me"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice"

Wim Wenders, Director

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"

Billy Wilder, Director

"You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"I want people to hear the presence of God in the music"

Bryan White, Musician

"I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"I didn't aim at anything except good music"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

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