Famous Quotes
- People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
- Serj Tankian on Music
- People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
- People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
- Paul Hindemith on Music
- Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
- Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
- Philosophy is the highest music.
- Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
- Brian Molko on Music
- Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
- Samuel Goldwyn on Music
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
- William Blake on Music
- Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
- Ravi Shankar on Music
- Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
- Christina Aguilera on Music
- Pop music has progressed.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Music
- Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
- Peter Tork on Music
- Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
- Pop music will never be low brow.
- Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
- Ani DiFranco on Music
- Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
- Martin Scorsese on Music
- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Music
- Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
- Peter Tork on Music
- Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
- Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
- Alexander McQueen on Music
- Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
- Maynard James Keenan on Music
- Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
- Gerard Way on Music
- Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
- Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
- Elvis Presley on Music
- Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
- Keith Richards on Music
- Rock music is niche.
- Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
- Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
- Bryan Ferry on Music
- Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
- Robert Plant on Music
- Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
- Amanda Seyfried on Music
- Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
- Amanda Seyfried on Music
- Singing is just a feeling set to music.
- Carrie Underwood on Music
- So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
- Smokey Robinson on Music
- So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
- So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
- David Byrne on Music
- Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
- Kenny Chesney on Music
- Some music really does suck!
- Henry Rollins on Music
- Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
- Bruce Springsteen on Music
- Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
- Henny Youngman on Music
- Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
- Steve Prefontaine on Music
- Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
- Michael Stipe on Music
- Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
- Soul music is timeless.
- Alicia Keys on Music
- Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
- Beth Ditto on Music
- Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
- Charles De Lint on Music
- Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
- Norah Jones on Music
- Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Steve Martin on Music
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