Music Quotes
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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
Bonnie Raitt
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Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Alyson Noel
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
Li Keqiang
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Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
Alex Honnold
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Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.
CeeLo Green
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When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
Jessica Simpson
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
Erykah Badu
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In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.
Khalid
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We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
Sean Howard Kinney
Alice in Chains
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When a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable-we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
Daniel Levitin
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
J. Cole
