Music Quotes

• I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.

  

  Joe Trohman Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Bad

• I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Life
  • True
  • Light

• I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

  

  Arvo Part
  • Music
  • Light

• The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Music

• Even with G.O.O.D. Music, we have artists that have done very well, and we've had artists that haven't. Being attached to Kanye is only going to get you so far. You've still got to have the records and the talent and the artistry on your own to carry it.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Music
  • Done

• The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

  

  Jacob Lusk
  • Music

• I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Life
  • Playing
  • Heard

• The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Music
  • Influence
  • My Mum

• I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • World
  • Country
  • Support

• My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Connection
  • Grandmother

• I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

  

  Kesha
  • Music

• Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Culture

• When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • World
  • Job
  • Help

• Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Music
  • Energy

• If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

  

  Jon Secada
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Honesty

• People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

  

  Astro
  • People
  • Time
  • Quality

• The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

  

  Joel Silver
  • People
  • Real
  • Movie

• With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

  

  Estelle
  • Music
  • Reggae
  • Lane

• To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Balance
  • Wall
  • Miracle

• The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Drama
  • Painting

• The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

  

  Brad Mehldau
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Suppose

• There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Music
  • Magic

• Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Music
  • Forever
  • Blue

• Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Punk

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