Music Quotes

• I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

  

  Donald Sinden
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.

  

  Kyla Reid
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Dance

• I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Life
  • Music

• We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Song

• The way the music business is changing, it’s good we can have it both ways.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Music
  • Ways
  • Changing

• I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Music

• But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

  

  Lotte Lehmann
  • Up
  • Important
  • Words

• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Possession
  • Rock N Roll

• Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Alone
  • Punk Rock

• When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Light

• Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Music
  • Mind

• I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Children
  • Family
  • Experience

• I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • Obsessed
  • Attempted

• We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Up
  • Great
  • History

• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

  

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Live
  • Dad
  • Singing

• Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Country
  • True

• When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Sports

• I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Words

• I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Writing
  • Listen
  • Own

• Every time we play our music in clubs, there's such a strong reaction.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Time
  • Music
  • Strong

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