Music Quotes

• I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Singer

• My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Happy

• Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

  

  John Frusciante
  • World
  • Music

• Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Song

• My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Listening

• The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • World
  • Music
  • Business

• I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Support
  • Fame
  • Blessing

• I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains. We were all suddenly making music and recording at the same time, and we had money to do it. It wasn't like a $2,000 recording that you do over a weekend. It's like, 'Wow, maybe this will be our job.'

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Sure
  • Hearing

• Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Able

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Feel
  • Mood
  • Relax

• I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • School
  • London

• I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Great
  • She
  • Teen

• Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Laughter
  • Dead

• I'm not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music

• When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Play

• Gay people are nice people. Just like any other people. And gay people love reggae music. Yeah. And gay people love Jamaica.

  

  Winston Foster
  • People
  • Nice
  • Gay

• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Listening

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