Music Quotes
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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
John Mellencamp
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
Flume
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
Nadia Ali
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I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
John Williams
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After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria de los Angeles
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week.
Kris Kristofferson
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I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
Kevin Eubanks
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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
Aaron Copland
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'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
John Williams
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
Washed Out
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
Angus Young
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Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.
Juice Wrld
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck
