Music Quotes
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
Kate Smith
Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush
Sugarland
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
Paul Weller
Incognito
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.
Malik Izaak Taylor
A Tribe Called Quest
You know how country music stars get an extra 10 years on their life when they go to Branson? Like you're washed up, and you go to Branson, then you can last another 10 years. That's what bashing the media does.
David Fahrenthold
I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.
Leila Slimani
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
Kitty Kelley
I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.
James Wan
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
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
I was practically raised with Christmas music.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
John Edgar Wideman
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Bjork
Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
Cliff Richard
You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
Ed Kowalczyk
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
Alexander Ludwig
Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
