Music Quotes
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The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that.
Erica Packer -
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
Oneohtrix Point Never
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I'm always eager to make new music.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
The breadth of Zappa's catalog was unbelievable. He just thought out of the box. His music was different from what everyone else was doing in his day.
Brendan Bayliss -
I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
Eef Barzelay -
Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
Richard Simmons -
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.
Evan Parker -
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
Boy George Culture Club
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I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato -
I will never stop making music.
Janelle Monae -
The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
Carmen Cusack -
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.
Bill Kaulitz -
I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
Nat Hentoff
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After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
Common -
Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
Elvis Costello -
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection.
Frederic Chopin -
Bad music can make you weak.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
Meg White The White Stripes
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I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
Courtney Barnett -
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp -
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
Charles Dickens