Music Quotes
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Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
F. Gary Gray
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I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.
Phillip Phillips
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
Jack Black
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
P. J. Harvey
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Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Bruno Mars
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I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer
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I love interpreting other people's music.
Katey Sagal
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I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.
Gary Larson
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
Hank Williams
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To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
Yehudi Menuhin
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In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Zubin Mehta
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
Charles Hazlewood
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Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.
James Murphy
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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
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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.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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There's girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It's about inspiring people and helping people.
Kehlani
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We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
Ziggy Marley
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
Zac Brown Band
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
Tavi Gevinson
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I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
Delta Goodrem
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
David Antin
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Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.
Micheal Ray Stevenson