Music Quotes

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.

Ken Robinson
- School
- Art
- Job
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Rita Ora
- Music

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Shinichi Suzuki
- World
- Music
- Perhaps
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
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

M.I.A.
- Music
- Political
It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.

Alain Ducasse
- Different
- Food
- Beginning
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

John Joseph Lydon
- Music
All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.

Kygo
- Music
- Different