Music Quotes
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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
Dr. Dre
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
Kurt Vonnegut
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I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
DMX
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Jack Kirby
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To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns
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Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.
Alessia Cara
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Bjork
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I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.
Robert Palmer
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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.
Allu Arjun
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
Pitbull
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If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
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Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
Bill Callahan
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
Brian Tyree Henry
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Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.
Zendaya
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I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
Maynard James Keenan
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I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.
Bria Skonberg
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
Bill Laswell
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Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
Billy Higgins
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All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.
Jake Shears Scissor Sisters