Music Quotes
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I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
Ariana Grande
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
Liz Phair
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...
Pablo Neruda
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The backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
Amy Grant
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Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.
T. D. Jakes
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The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams Of inaccessible Utopia. A mountainous music always seemed To be falling and to be passing away.
Wallace Stevens
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I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees
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I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.
Ato Essandoh
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
Neil Peart Rush
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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
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Memory for playing a musical piece... involves a process very much like that for music listening... through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking... tying information together into groups, and remembering the group as a whole rather than individual pieces.
Daniel Levitin
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
Sting The Police
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My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.
Adele
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I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
Nicholas James Murphy
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It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.
Ashley Thomas
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With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.
Mike Will Made It
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Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
Will Champion Coldplay
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I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.
Prince Royce
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All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy
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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
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To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
Eric Brown
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy Rooney