Music Quotes

• Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Inspiration
  • Hip Hop
  • Pop

• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Poetry

• I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Up
  • Home
  • American

• I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Life
  • Music
  • Urge

• I'm a big Justin Bieber fan. I've been a Justin Bieber fan. I've been listening to his music. OG, you know. That's also my friend, too, so, you know. It's just one of those things. We've been supporting each other's music for a long, long, long time.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • School
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I love being a part of the country-music community.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Community
  • Part

• These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Sun
  • Moon

• There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music

• I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Hope
  • Faces
  • Legacy

• It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • School
  • Why
  • Bad

• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Country
  • Future
  • Past

• I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Music
  • Cool

• I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • Jazz
  • Telescopes
  • Microscopes

• As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Music
  • School

• Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Listening

• There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Music

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