Music Quotes

• I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The only thing I could think of - because I really don't like categories - but the only thing I could think of is inspirational, and I think music that is from the heart falls right into that category.

  

  Prince
  • Heart
  • inspirational
  • Categories

• I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Fun
  • Forever
  • Motivated

• I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Country
  • Crazy
  • Style

• What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

  

  Marc Anthony
  • Music
  • Latin

• It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Music
  • Environment

• I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Different
  • Live
  • Dance

• I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Single
  • Artist
  • Hear

• I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Music
  • Love
  • New York

• I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Work
  • Great
  • Soul

• Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

  

  Priscilla Ahn
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• It is people's hearts that move the age.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Moving

• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • True
  • Feel

• As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

  

  Benjamin Booker
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Vision

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• At the beginning, my folks were pretty upset with the whole thing at first, the music, the tattoos - but after observing the music scene I'm in now for a couple of years, they totally get it - they actually love it. They are so proud. My dad actually flew to Japan to see us play. My mom comes to the shows near home in Washington.

  

  Matty Mullins
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Music in general is very interpretative, isn’t it? It’s amazing how many songs in history have been misinterpreted but in an amazing way that means something to someone and that’s the beauty of music really, it’s what you make of it. And I think our songs are the same really, they’re no different, and if people pick out lines that mean something in their lives…it’s all we wanted to do: to mean something to people.

  

  Adam Anderson Hurts
  • History
  • Songs
  • Interpretative

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Travel

• I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Kind
  • Wanted
  • Certain

• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Very

• I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

  

  Christian Kane
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Musician

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