Music Quotes
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
Daniel Barenboim
Life is too short to listen to bad music.
Freddie Mercury
We, as Christians, have a legacy to leave, and it's all about a love of Christ to permeate the music and reach the hearts of all of the people out there, that don't know him and do know him.
Lauren Daigle
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. Rahman
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
Life is like a piano. The white keys represent happiness and the black keys represent sadness. But as you go through life, remember that the black keys makes music as well.
Bang Yong-guk
B.A.P
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.
John Hodgman
In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.
Maurice White
Earth, Wind & Fire
The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.
Kurt Vile
As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing.
Ella Mai
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
Nas
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim
