Music Quotes
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I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.
Shad Gregory Moss
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Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.
Bertice Berry
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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
John Fahey
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.
Ariel Pink
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
Daniel Tammet
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The best way to express rhythm is music.
John Hartford
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
Kailash Kher
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I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.
Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
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Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person - I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I'm a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts.
Klaus Schwab
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
Maira Kalman
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I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
Miguel
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In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
David Amram
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I want people to get positive energy from our music.
Suga BTS
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The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.
Wallace Stevens
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I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
Bill Bruford Yes
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
Usher
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First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.
Elfriede Jelinek
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I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
Zac Brown Band
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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard
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What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?
Marc Benioff
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I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
Joanna Newsom