Music Quotes

• Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Music
  • Love
  • Holiday

• Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Life
  • Great
  • Words

• I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at the Eastman School of Music. From Mel I learned to appreciate improvisatory ingenuity and from Sam rhythmic athleticism.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Learned
  • University
  • Athleticism

• I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Music

• When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

  

  Bradley Nowell
  • House
  • Light
  • Dance

• A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

  

  Steven Price
  • Music
  • Director
  • Editing

• Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Supply

• AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

  

  Rico Love
  • Attention
  • Favorite
  • Queen

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Music
  • Way
  • Impossible

• I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

  

  Mitchel Musso
  • Team
  • Acting
  • Solo

• When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Time
  • Music
  • Job

• Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Real
  • Mean

• There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • World
  • Music

• Music changed more between 1963 and 1969 than it has in the 37 years since, with the Beatles among the architects of that change.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music

• I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Music
  • Song
  • Poetry

• 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.
  • Music

• I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • People
  • Money
  • Path

• Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • People
  • Important
  • She

• There's a tradition - in New Orleans it still exists - where people play in the street. People play outside of the venues. Food, music, and that cultural exchange, it happens anywhere.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • People
  • Music
  • Food

• We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Music
  • Making
  • Mastered

• So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel, and a different director is going to be doing Man of Steel. That’s the reality. So all you can do is to give it not only your best, but your vision on what this character is, when you become one with that character.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

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