Music Quotes
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I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
Arnold Adoff
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When the instrumental bit comes in, all the spotlights go onto a mirror ball and you basically hear gasps from the audience over the music. It's a really magical moment.
Stu G
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I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.
Mitch Hewer
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I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.
Allie Gonino
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I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.
Jason Wade
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Nobody can hear you read music.
Erroll Garner
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There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.
Nick Fradiani
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I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I was perfectly happy about being in a pop group. Roxy Music was the perfect vehicle, and enabled me to continue with this parallel musical career, which had nothing to do with what the group were doing. It was more to do with the extension of British psychedelia.
Phil Manzanera Roxy Music
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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.
Ezra Furman
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My music puts people in a dreamy mood. It's edgy. It's nuanced. I get annoyed when people say it's R&B because it's not that simple. I call it futuristic soul.
Ravyn Lenae
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I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.
Ezra Furman
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I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
Glen Campbell
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Thomas Carlyle
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I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.
Ramin Djawadi
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To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
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One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Herbie Hancock
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
George Steiner
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Something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves.
Elena Ferrante
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Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
Casey Abrams
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement