Music Quotes
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
Ken Burns
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I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.
Rita Ora
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Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.
Daniel Levitin
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You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.
Kate DeAraugo
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We're appreciated by fans because of the level of our craft. The songs speak to them in a personal way. And they do it in an artful (way) and honest way. That's why. But, I think that's true of anything that stands the test of time as our music has. And it also proves that the critics are wrong. In a great sense, it proves how short sighted and how prejudice critics generally are, or their taste rather than for what the quality of the music really is.
Doug Fieger The Knack
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I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.
Ben Falcone
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I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
Mark Zupan
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In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.
Jerry Hunt
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I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
ASAP Rocky
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak Perlman
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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
Jerry Leiber
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The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.
Brad Mehldau
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In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
Bruce Beresford
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I was that kid that did dance, singing, pageants. I did everything pretty much across the board, so it was kind of an adjustment solely doing music.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.
Aprilynne Pike
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I love what I do. I love the music, and I'm honored to be presented with a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Elvis Duran
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Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.
Angie Stone
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
Benny Anderson
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We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.
Anna Ternheim
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Honestly, the more things start to get bigger and better, the more I am just inspired to work harder and put my music out there and make better music and keep everything going.
Shawn Mendes