Music Quotes

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.

Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Music I do just for me.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

Music should always be just a celebration.

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

Music is an indirect force for change

I make my own music and I don't criticize others.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

I want to release music that is true to myself.

Music has always been a huge part of my life.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion.

I want to be a diva... like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around.

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.