Music Quotes

• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Listening

• I listen to so much music every day, so that's such a big part of my life. To be able to pursue that and put out my own stuff is definitely a goal. I don't want to put something out that I'm not proud of because I think it's so easy to say, 'I'm an actress/musician.'

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Life
  • Music
  • Proud

• People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Music

• Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Business
  • Success
  • Ugly

• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Mood

• What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Artist

• My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Life
  • World
  • Parents

• There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

  

  Duke Ellington
  • Good
  • Music

• Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • World
  • Friends
  • Passion

• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Business
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Different
  • Family
  • Try

• Backstreet has been around a long time. Normally, groups like us have a shelf life of two to four years. We always wanted to have a long stay in the music world.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Music

• Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Time
  • Great
  • Art

• I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Fear
  • Listening
  • Honesty

• I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Song
  • Dad
  • Singing

• Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Music is everywhere, and it's an amazing and creative way for people to express themselves, so I love it.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• So turn it on, turn it up, and sing a longThis is real; this is your life in a song.Yeah this is country music.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

  

  Don Rose
  • Up
  • Music
  • Partner

• I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Audience

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