Music Quotes
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
Vicki Baum
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
Emmanuel Jal
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
Jenny Lewis
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
Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
Washed Out
I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.
James Arthur
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
Neil Finn
Crowded House
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
Artie Shaw
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
Bjork
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
Evelyn Glennie