Music Quotes
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But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
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Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
James Surowiecki
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I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"
Nicki Minaj
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Stillwater was actually perfect for us.It pretty much screams unexcitement. The only thing you can do here is drink beer, have sex or write music. --On his hometown
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
Ennio Morricone
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel
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My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
Peter C. Doherty
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I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.
Mac DeMarco
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Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
David Lambert
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Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
Cecilia Bartoli
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To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.
Psy
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I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.
Alice Ripley
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The most stupendous miracle in all music.
Sebastian Bach
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
Andy Mineo
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I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
Donald Ray Pollock
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
Peter Tork The Monkees
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The best music of any era lasts well, I think.
Peter Asher
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The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.
Jimmy Iovine
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We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
J Balvin