Music Quotes

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Tammin Sursok
- Up
- Parents
- Listening
The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

Harry Belafonte
- Good
- Men
- Art

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars
- Music
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

Ann Powers
- Writing
- School
- High
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

Kelis Rogers
- Music
- America
- Black
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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
Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.

Yiannis Chryssomallis
- People
- Important
- Live