Music Quotes

"Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me"

"The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now"

"All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop"

Lauren Alaina, Musician

"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"

June Jordan, Writer

"I love X-Games music"

Jon Anderson, Musician

"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum"

Steve Albini, Musician

"Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny"

Roy Wood, Musician

"If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going"

Nina Simone, Musician

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

"I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music"

Gary Cole, Actor

"Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me"

Paul McDonald, Musician

"I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on"

Clint Black, Musician

"And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"My dad's music was a great inspiration to me"

Julian Lennon, Musician

"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words"

Bill Haley, Musician

"Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day"

Rick Derringer, Musician

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

Rick Derringer, Musician

"Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

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