Music Quotes

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Music’s a wood you walk through.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

I always thought music was open to all things.

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I never listened to country music growing up.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

I’m not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

If you took away music, I wouldnt have a reason to live.

We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

Good music is very close to primitive language.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

If it's not a hit, switch.

Jazz to me is a living music.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.