Music Quotes

• It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Done
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Celebrity

• 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

• People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Punk

• Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

  

  David Gray
  • Step
  • Advertising
  • Somewhere

• I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Music
  • Rock

• 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

• I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Music

• I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I found that music was my favorite art form.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Music
  • Art

• My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Music
  • Career
  • Legendary Child

• Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Soul
  • Dying

• I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

  

  David Tudor
  • Music

• Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
  • Listen
  • Bands
  • Classics

• Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Good
  • True
  • Soul

• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  

  Mary Timony
  • Music
  • Rock

• I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Music
  • Giving

• When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Loaded

• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Marketing

• I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

  

  Alfred Schnittke
  • Music
  • Country
  • Question

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