Music Quotes (2825 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Itay Talgam
„Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.“
― Itay Talgam ―
Picture of quotation author P. J. Harvey
„I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.“
― P. J. Harvey ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Dost
„The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.“
― Andrew Dost ―
Picture of quotation author Alan Moore
„Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.“
― Alan Moore ―
Picture of quotation author Big Boi
„I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.“
― Big Boi ―
Picture of quotation author Mike Gordon
„We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.“
― Mike Gordon ―
Picture of quotation author Moby
„If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.“
― Moby ―
Picture of quotation author Tiesto
„At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.“
― Tiesto ―
Picture of quotation author Gavin Bryars
„As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.“
― Gavin Bryars ―
Picture of quotation author Blake Shelton
„My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.“
― Blake Shelton ―
Picture of quotation author Leslie Mann
„Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.“
― Leslie Mann ―
Picture of quotation author Joss Stone
„I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.“
― Joss Stone ―
Picture of quotation author Juanes
„Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.“
― Juanes ―
Picture of quotation author Britt Daniel
„Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.“
― Britt Daniel ―
Picture of quotation author Marnie Stern
„Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.“
― Marnie Stern ―
Picture of quotation author Jane Siberry
„I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.“
― Jane Siberry ―
Picture of quotation author JC Chasez
„The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.“
― JC Chasez ―
Picture of quotation author P. T. Barnum
„The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.“
― P. T. Barnum ―
Picture of quotation author Bruno Mars
„Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.“
― Bruno Mars ―
Picture of quotation author David Johansen
„Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.“
― David Johansen ―

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