Music Quotes
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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
Angela Kinsey
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Music can be a source of escapism.
Danielle de Niese
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The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.
Alex Morgan
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I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.
Wayne Shorter
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
Neil Sedaka
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All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.
David Sanborn
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Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.
Chris Stapleton
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My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.
Ella Mai
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I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.
Jane Lindskold
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
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Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
Chris Carmack
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It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
Matthew Sweet
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Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.
Danielle Trussoni
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I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older you get, the more tolerant you get, right?
Dmitry Medvedev
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I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
Lorde
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Music has always felt very real to me.
Joan Osborne
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Music is a huge part of my life and something I enjoy very much. I wanted to use my platform to share and promote the talented, undiscovered artists I listen to every day with a wider audience.
Connor Franta
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
Edward Elgar
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That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
Fred Armisen
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
T. C. Boyle
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
Bjork
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.
Brian Tyree Henry