Music Quotes

• Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Music

• To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Time
  • Band
  • Rock

• That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'

  

  Kiran Ahluwalia
  • Music

• I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Music
  • Country
  • Popular

• I love 'hearing a person's face' in their music. I've been told by fans that they can tell when I'm smiling or feeling mischievous in my voice – that's a huge compliment.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Feeling
  • Fans
  • Compliment

• For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Music
  • Art

• I love every kind of music.

  

  Kimberly Caldwell
  • Music

• There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Pleasure

• Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Firsts
  • Albums
  • Wavelength

• All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

  

  Lauv
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Deny

• If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Stop

• The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

  

  Miles Davis
  • Music
  • Way
  • Helping

• I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music

• I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

  

  Benny Green
  • Music
  • Friends

• It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • True Love
  • Imagines
  • Funny Things

• I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Performances

• My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • History
  • Listening

• The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Music
  • Songs

• I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • People
  • Die
  • Emotional

• Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Friend

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