Music Quotes
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If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
Ben Harper
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
Michael J. Willett
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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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When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
Will Champion Coldplay
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To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Maurice Sendak
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I decided to pursue Christian music in that moment, the moment my music and faith come together, and that how God called me to make Christian music.
Jamie Kimmett
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That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.
Dave Wakeling
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I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.
Yehudi Menuhin
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...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
Albert Ayler
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable sic as it is interesting.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Steve Albini Big Black
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt Whitman
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As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.
Frank Vincent
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I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.
Alvin Morris
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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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Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.
Jonathan Zittrain
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I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
Cardi B
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
Dierks Bentley
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For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
Nico Muhly
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
Rod Stewart