Music Quotes

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.

Music is for sharing with people.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

Im a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.