Music Quotes

• I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a couple. But whatever's hot at the moment is what I'll gravitate toward.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Work
  • Long
  • Movie

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Focus
  • Explore
  • Priority

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Love
  • Ignore

• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • New York
  • Paris

• Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Real
  • Generation

• I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Art
  • Internet
  • Drinking

• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Music
  • Business
  • Woman

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Art
  • Same

• I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Song
  • Write
  • Singer

• When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • House
  • Passionate

• When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Money
  • Remember
  • High

• You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Music
  • Business
  • Simple

• I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Remember

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Music
  • Important

• I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Hear

• I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

  

  Blake Michael
  • Music
  • Dad

• Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

  

  Adam Rich
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Band

• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music, I think about gold, blood rushing... I like to keep it really warm and glittery.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Gold

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Listen
  • Teenagers

• I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

  

  Crystal Waters
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Mountain
  • I Remember
  • The Beatles

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