Famous Quotes
- I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
- Nina Simone on Music
- I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
- Neil Young on Music
- I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
- Amy Winehouse on Music
- I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
- I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
- Lauryn Hill on Music
- I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
- David Duchovny on Music
- I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
- I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
- David Bowie on Music
- I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
- James Taylor on Music
- I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I don't see music as working.
- I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.
- Lea Michele on Music
- I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
- Taylor Swift on Music
- I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
- Rashida Jones on Music
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Music
- I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
- I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
- Martin Gore on Music
- I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
- I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
- I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
- Stephen Hawking on Music
- I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
- Christina Milian on Music
- I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.
- Steve Martin on Music
- I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
- Ashley Tisdale on Music
- I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
- I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
- David Bowie on Music
- I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
- Pete Townshend on Music
- I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
- John McLaughlin on Music
- I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
- Diane Kruger on Music
- I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Music
- I found music to be the therapy of choice.
- David Byrne on Music
- I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
- Norah Jones on Music
- I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Music
- I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
- Antonio Banderas on Music
- I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
- Demi Lovato on Music
- I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
- I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
- Diane Kruger on Music
- I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
- I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
- Nina Simone on Music
- I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
- Cat Stevens on Music
- I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
- David Bowie on Music
- I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
- Elvis Presley on Music
- I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
- I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
- I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
- I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
- I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
- Pope John Paul II on Music
- I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
- Rod Stewart on Music
- I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.
- Rod Stewart on Music
- I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
- Salma Hayek on Music
- I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
- Joni Mitchell on Music
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