Music Quotes
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
Ariana Grande
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
Bat for Lashes
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
Adam Lambert
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For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.
Adele
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I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
Kurt Vile
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Randy Travis
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Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.
Thalía
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That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
Illinois Jacquet
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.
Blu Cantrell
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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
Hans Zimmer
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
Queen Latifah
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When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
Trisha Yearwood
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I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.
Zach Condon
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Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.
Bozoma Saint John
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Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.
Marvin Sapp
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I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.
SZA
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
Ian MacKaye
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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
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Q-Tip