Music Quotes
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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Derek Bailey
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.
Dominic Monaghan
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Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
Dick Smothers
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
Billy Sheehan
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I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.
Usain Bolt
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
Bob Geldof
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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
Natalie Cole
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Don't be afraid, just play the music.
Charlie Parker
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A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
Art Blakey
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I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.
Kathleen Edwards
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Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
Neil Diamond
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Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
Eric Kripke
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
Gayle Forman
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Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Ellen G. White
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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
Merle Haggard
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The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Music is important.
Mirriam Johnson
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Kris Allen
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I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!
Gabrielle Aplin
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I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London
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I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.
Bill Laswell
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Manuel Puig