Famous Quotes
- I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I need drama in my life to keep making music.
- I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
- LeBron James on Music
- I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
- Willie Nelson on Music
- I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
- Annie Lennox on Music
- I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
- I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Music
- I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
- Barry White on Music
- I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
- Carlos Santana on Music
- I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
- Carlos Santana on Music
- I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
- Brett Favre on Music
- I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.
- Jam Master Jay on Music
- I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
- John Mayer on Music
- I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
- Ani DiFranco on Music
- I see music as fluid architecture.
- Joni Mitchell on Music
- I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
- I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
- Ani DiFranco on Music
- I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
- Katherine Jenkins on Music
- I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
- Eric Clapton on Music
- I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
- I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
- Kristin Scott Thomas on Music
- I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
- John Entwistle on Music
- I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
- Cat Stevens on Music
- I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
- I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
- Danny Boyle on Music
- I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
- I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
- Shaun White on Music
- I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
- Maynard James Keenan on Music
- I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
- Taylor Swift on Music
- I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
- Nuno Bettencourt on Music
- I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
- Saul Williams on Music
- I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
- Norah Jones on Music
- I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
- Michelle Branch on Music
- I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
- Katherine Jenkins on Music
- I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
- Billy Joel on Music
- I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
- Eddie Vedder on Music
- I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
- Annie Lennox on Music
- I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
- Thom Yorke on Music
- I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
- Sarah McLachlan on Music
- I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
- Justin Bieber on Music
- I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Music
- I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.
- I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
- Willie Nelson on Music
- I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
- Steve Hackett on Music
- I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
- Bruce Springsteen on Music
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