Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Yanni

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Brendan Fletcher

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

Brendon Urie

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Becky G

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Ben Barnes

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Boy George

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

Chris Robinson

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Chris Robinson

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Christo

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Dave Grohl

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

Dev Hynes

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

Ray Charles

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Nile Rodgers

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Feist

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Cecil Taylor

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Cecil Taylor

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Cecil Taylor

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Cecil Taylor

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Carrie Underwood

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

Carl Sagan

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.