Music Quotes
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The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Everything from the music to our clothes was truly authentic. Lisa and I were in my basement spray painting our overalls.
Rozonda Thomas TLC
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'We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.''I’m aware of the problems,' she said. '‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.'
Ken MacLeod
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The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
Clarence Clemons
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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
Kenneth Branagh
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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
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I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.
Blake Shelton
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I was able to believe when everything looked really dark and gray. I had a little break where the music carried me through. I love the music and performing this program. It's always so special to me no matter what happens. It goes beyond an athletic event and just becomes an emotional experience. I was able to attack the rest of the program.
Sasha Cohen
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I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
Jack Garratt
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To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever.
Chris Botti Incognito
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
Mary J. Blige
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I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.
Bethany Cosentino
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I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
Aphex Twin
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
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I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
G-Dragon
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For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.
Eric Church
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Live music is better! Bumper stickers should be issued!
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
Kygo
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When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.
Bill O'Reilly