Music Quotes

• It is easy to write unthinking music.

  

  George Crumb
  • Music

• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Radio

• 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

• The music became secondary to being rock stars.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Music
  • Rock

• David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Moving
  • Credit
  • Bullseye

• You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • People
  • Music

• Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Music

• Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Music
  • Country

• I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.

  

  Bonar Law
  • Music
  • Bridge
  • Scenery

• I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Melody

• John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Appreciated
  • Realise

• 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

• I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I'm always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Move
  • Obsessed
  • Vocabulary

• I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Music

• Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Painting
  • Mountain
  • Expectation

• The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Music
  • Kentucky
  • Traditional songs

• I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Calm

• We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Song
  • Band

• I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music

• I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I'm really passionate about music.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Music

• As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  

  Frank Black
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

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