Music Quotes
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
Ben Harper
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I was always afraid to write music.
Dory Previn
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It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
Lonnie Donegan
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If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
Matt Haig
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The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
Shakira
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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.
Jay-Z
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We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
Johnny Flynn
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
Douglas Hodge
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I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.
Arturo O'Farrill
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I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.
Kellan Lutz
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.
James Black
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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
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I always feel like music should be a universal language.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.
Ryan Adams
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I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
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There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
Jimmy Iovine
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.
Zeena Parkins
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There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
Butch Trucks