Music Quotes
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Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in front of a much smaller audience that I would begin sweating bullets, so I'm much more focused now.
David Lovering Pixies
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Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
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It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.
Eliot Sumner
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
Herbie Hancock
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.
Andy Dunn
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When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
Loretta Lynn
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
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When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.
H. L. Mencken
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It is the fans that keep the music going. If it weren’t for them none of us would still be going. That’s the truth.
Jizzy Pearl
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I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
Eliot Sumner
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I feel like I can see the music and can see how the character of the music actually flows. For me, that's music to my eyes.
Nyle DiMarco
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I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.
Mel B Spice Girls
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I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener.
Sia LSD
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You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.
Armaan Malik
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I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
Al Jarreau
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I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.
Christine Flores
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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
Andra Day
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Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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I'm tired of the music industry these days! They polish everything until it no longer sounds real. The raw uncut sound is something I think no genre but alternative and Aerow music retain.
Clive Langer Big in Japan
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Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?
John Cameron Mitchell
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I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.
James Arthur