Music Quotes

• The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Music
  • Black

• The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Proud

• I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.

  

  Charles Michael Davis
  • Good
  • Study
  • Teacher

• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Work
  • Real
  • Trying

• The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

  

  Arthur Sullivan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Songwriting

• I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

  

  Jose Gonzalez
  • Music

• I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Music
  • Head
  • Soundtrack

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• 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
  • Life
  • Music

• My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

  

  Future
  • Music
  • Experience

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  

  Dick York
  • People
  • Music
  • Air

• I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Running
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Pretty
  • Past
  • Couple

• I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Career

• What I like best about music is when time goes away.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Time
  • Music

• My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Good
  • Music
  • Food

• Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Air
  • Magic

• Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

  

  Christina Perri
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Singing

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