Music Quotes

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

I've come to the conclusion that a long personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.