Music Quotes
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I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.
Robby Takac
Goo Goo Dolls
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I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
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My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
Bibi Bourelly
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
Flume
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And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
James Young
Styx
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.
Luke Bryan
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If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
Edward Bellamy
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.
Chris Squire
Cinema
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
Taylor Momsen
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The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
Amos Lee
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After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
Cliff Richard
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
Alessia Cara
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Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.
Derek Bailey
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Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
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I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
Ziggy Marley
