Music Quotes
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I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
Jessica Sanchez
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that's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto.
Chuck Ragan
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Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
Steve Reich
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You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.
Jason Aldean
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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
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
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When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
Lenny Kravitz
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Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.
Alan Powell
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Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
Nick Lachey
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Music at its essence is what gives us memories.
Stevie Wonder
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It's not a problem if 20,000 people heard my music for free, but it's a huge problem if 20,000 people never heard my music.
Ashley McBryde
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Popular music sucks so bad right now.
Kristin Hersh
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We're appreciated by fans because of the level of our craft. The songs speak to them in a personal way. And they do it in an artful (way) and honest way. That's why. But, I think that's true of anything that stands the test of time as our music has. And it also proves that the critics are wrong. In a great sense, it proves how short sighted and how prejudice critics generally are, or their taste rather than for what the quality of the music really is.
Doug Fieger The Knack
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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
Cliff Martinez
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I approach horror music differently than anything else. The very first time I watch an episode, I want to be playing an instrument to it so I can get that shock into the show.
Brian Reitzell
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It's not my aim to be this, like, 'savior for females.' I just want to make good music.
Maren Morris
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love. Ezra Furman Love Music People About I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.
Ezra Furman
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Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?
Paul Shaffer
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The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.
Cole Swindell
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
Billy Joel