Music Quotes

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

Music is something to live for. It is just for me, nobody else can take away from me.It makes me so happy and I can rely on it completely - it'll always be there!

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

Good music is wine turned to sound

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.