Music Quotes
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
John Grant
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
George Michael
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
Cass McCombs
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
William Cullen Bryant
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I've always loved music since I was a little kid.
J Balvin
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I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.
Jack Garratt
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
James Bay
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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
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That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.
Bob Mondello
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In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
Vernon Reid
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I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.
Al Kooper
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Music as a business is a dirty thing.
Brian Reitzell
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Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
Common
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When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.
Bob Lefsetz
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It was like how, when he read a poem to himself, the rhymes were neither sound nor silence. Unheard melodies in the mind’s ear. The muted music of consciousness.
Ben Lerner
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I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
John Grant
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There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
Boudleaux Bryant
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Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.
Eef Barzelay
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I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Lisa Bonet
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Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.
Celedonio Romero
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I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19.
Katherine Langford