Music Quotes

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one way or another, you get influenced.

Through my surfing, I met all my friends that helped me out in the music world, and so that's kind of how it all began. So, it was the surfing and then the music.

[Jack Johnson]gave me my whole start in music, which was the coolest thing ever.

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

I'm always looking for good music.

It's cool to have a personal relationship with someone who's your idol. Someone whose music you used to constantly listen to, when you were hoping you could make it one day.

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music.

I used to make love to Green Day's music. But 9 minutes? I'm not Superman.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

I make music. It's kind of what I've always done.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

I am never going to give music up.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

I actually am always a music first person

I privilege the music over the lyrics

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

I make the kind of music I like

I started playing music at a pretty young age

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.