Music Quotes

• People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.

  

  Kip Moore
  • People
  • Music

• My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Music
  • Black

• For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Friends
  • Band

• I listen mostly to classical music.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Music

• Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Way
  • Nice
  • Write

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Words
  • Single

• For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Learning

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

  

  James Marsters
  • Music
  • Money

• The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Gospel
  • Preach

• We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

  

  Ian Axel
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Pretty
  • Action
  • Imagination

• My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Song
  • Thought

• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• 50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Perform
  • Scream

• I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

  

  Post Malone
  • Time
  • Real
  • Mom

• My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  

  Jan Garbarek
  • World
  • Music

• Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Music
  • Soccer
  • Passions

• Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • School
  • High
  • Church

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Innovation

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Great
  • Help
  • Lifting

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