Music Quotes
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
Chuck Berry
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The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
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It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more.
Anita Pallenberg
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Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one guy working in one studio, they send the file to another guy in some other part of the world, they send it back and then they send it this way and that way. Musicianship is kind of - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, some great music is made that way.
Dave Koz
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I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.
Neil Patrick Harris
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I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.
Ansel Elgort
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Music was always a part of my life.
Keala Settle
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
Fred Armisen
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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
Nadia Boulanger
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
Christo
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I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.
Frankie Cosmos
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It's an incredible feeling to stand on stage and see so many people getting into your music. I can't imagine there being a more satisfying feeling in the world. How many other professionals have instant gratification like that? The crowds make us feel loved, make us feel wanted, every night. We're so thankful to the fans who come out and cheer us on. They are the show.
Steve Clark Def Leppard
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
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Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.
Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
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I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.
Paul Young Mike and the Mechanics
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.
Tracy Lawrence
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Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
John Singleton
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I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.
Lisa Loeb
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I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Patty Griffin
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Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.
Art Alexakis
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My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.
Jessie Buckley