Music Quotes
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My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.
Elvis Costello
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If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
Hermann Hesse
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I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.
Bradford Cox
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I feel I must fight for my music, because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.
Ethel Smyth
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My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
Sara Zarr
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Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.
G-Dragon
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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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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sean Lennon
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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.
Lewis Capaldi
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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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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
Ernst Bacon
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Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
Nico Muhly
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I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
Eva Green
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Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.
Bob Gaudio
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I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
Deradoorian
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
Brian Chippendale
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Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.
Nora Fatehi
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Bill Gates
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You just said it, the style of the music doesn’t allow anything else.
Peter Edward Clarke