Music Quotes

• No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

  

  Don McLean
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Career

• The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Band
  • Reason
  • Listening

• Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Good
  • Music
  • Hustle

• I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Draw
  • Original
  • Commercials

• I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Future
  • Free
  • Past

• I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Destroyed
  • Videos

• Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Style

• We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Future

• I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

  

  Kygo
  • Music

• I would love to be able to say that due to my experience in the music industry, when it comes to the songs, I'm killing it over anybody else, but that is not the case. Everybody in this thing is ridiculously talented to where I don't feel special.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Music
  • Experience

• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Language
  • Speak

• When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Music

• To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Music

• I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

  

  John Grant
  • Music
  • Long
  • Failure

• I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

  

  George Crumb
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Music
  • Performances
  • Interviews

• Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • World
  • Kids
  • Change

• I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

  

  Andra Day
  • People
  • Music

• There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

  

  Alex North
  • Music

• Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Music

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