Music Quotes

• Whether I'm trying to or not, I have this inherent feeling that music is uplifting; it makes you feel victorious, and that makes you feel like you can take on the world.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • World
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• 'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • Time
  • Music

• I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

  

  David Suchet
  • Great
  • Music
  • Relax

• It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I'm influenced by music from all over the world, but rock and roll definitely comes from the United States, and I've always loved The Stooges. Ron Ashton said he would be interested in doing a track with me and I can't wait! I also did a track with Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, but it didn't finish in time for the new CD. I like electronic No Wave and New Wave stuff from the end of the 70s' to the mid 80s', dark stuff, and psychedelic music from the end of the 60s' to the 70s'.

  

  Hanin Elias Atari Teenage Rio
  • World
  • Music
  • United States

• There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Nature
  • Composers
  • Orient

• I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music

• I make music with no boundaries.

  

  Pitbull
  • Music

• Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

  

  Don McLean
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• 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

• In terms of history, the influence of traditional Irish music in a storytelling manner is probably where the desire to do that comes from. It’s a bit of a lost art in modern music, especially modern U.S. music.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Music
  • History
  • Influence

• The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • World
  • Why
  • Business

• One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

  

  Graham Nash
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Why

• In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.

  

  Zach Condon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Would Be

• The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • Music
  • Game
  • Fall

• It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • People
  • Art
  • Drama

• And we're always excited to expose our music to new people to see if we can have longevity and a long career. It's heading that way.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Career
  • New People

• You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• 'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Black
  • Taken
  • Theatre

• I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.

  

  Melissa Auf der Maur
  • Music
  • Redhead

• When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • School
  • Job
  • High

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