Music Quotes

• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Music
  • Free
  • Creativity

• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • You
  • Big

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Reading
  • Ballet

• I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Think
  • Seriously

• Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Marketing

• My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Band

• You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Great
  • Music
  • Bored

• I write music. I'm in a band.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Music
  • Band

• It's my music. It's my craft. If you don't like it, then turn it off. Don't listen to it. But a lot of people listen to it... The numbers, they add up.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Fun
  • Political
  • Positive

• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Rock
  • Balance
  • Sweet

• My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

  

  Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr.
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Reading

• I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

  

  James McBride
  • Nature
  • Door
  • Wall

• I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

  

  Jeff Healey
  • Music
  • Business

• Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where the landscape of our music comes from, it was more like, let's walk around. People are saying that we are part of some sort of folk scene. We don't feel connected with it. We do live in the city, and communicate with people. It's all folk music.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • People
  • Scene
  • Communicate

• I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

  

  Avicii
  • Time
  • House
  • Listening

• The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

  

  Shakira
  • Career
  • Giving
  • Frustration

• If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Music
  • Why

• Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Music

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Character

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