Music Quotes
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
Pat Metheny
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
Art Blakey
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
Quavo Migos
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
Ian McLagan Small Faces
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
A. R. Rahman
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
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When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.
Mario Testino
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
John Frusciante
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I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
Xavier Rudd
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
Ian Anderson
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
Nelly
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
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And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
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It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.
Michael W. Smith
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
Wayne Coyne
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
Larry Norman
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay
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I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.
George Jones Mr. President (band)
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In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.
Phillip Phillips
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
J. K. Simmons