Music Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Cooking

• Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Music
  • Moving

• I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • People
  • Music

• 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
  • People
  • Music

• 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
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Choice

• Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Unique

• In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Work
  • Long
  • Lost

• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Long
  • Writing

• The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure I would never play that.'

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Country
  • Appreciation

• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Time
  • Men
  • Character

• I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • School

• The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • World
  • Music

• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Die
  • Technology

• When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• 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
  • Music
  • Identity
  • Commit

• That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • World
  • Music

• In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • People
  • Life
  • World

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

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Sure
  • Hearing

• In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.

  

  Dan Hill
  • World
  • Music
  • Book

• I like to make music because I've been making music since I was 7. I can get across the things that I want to say in my music so that I don't have to say anything. I don't have to speak out about the things I believe; I can say them in my music.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Music
  • Believe

• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Music

• 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
  • Life
  • Music
  • Children

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