Music Quotes
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I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
Charli XCX
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
Donald O'Connor
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I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
A. R. Rahman
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It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.
Brian Wilson
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
Janelle Monae
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I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
FKA twigs
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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.
Chris Isaak
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I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I'm blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.
J Balvin
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
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I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.
Bishop Briggs
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I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
Belinda Carlisle
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg