Music Quotes
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I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
Mary J. Blige
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There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
B. B. King
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It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Christine Baranski
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If I read a script in the future that I feel like I could have a little fun with or that reflects me well, it may be one of those things that I try out. But, of course, music's my number one priority.
Brantley Gilbert
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.
Georgia Nott Broods
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Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
Janelle Monae
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I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
Brett Favre
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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
George Crumb
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My music is not lovely.
Arnold Schoenberg
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I went to my first CMA Music Fest when I was 14 and waited in line for two hours to meet two people: Taylor Swift and Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum. It's very ironic but not accidental that those two people refer to me as their 'little sister' now.
Kelsea Ballerini
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Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.
Alex Morgan
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Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.
Clyde Edgerton
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Maria Callas
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I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.
Queen Latifah
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The music had so many different styles because we all contributed everything we knew.
Irmin Schmidt Can
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'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'
Kanye West
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Pop music I have always loved best.
John Joseph Lydon
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I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.
Andrew Bazzi
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We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
David Slade