Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robby Benson

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Emmanuel Jal

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

Chico Buarque

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

Stephen Marley

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

Grimes

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

New Orleans was a musician's paradise. But if we all leave, that music scene could be gone.

Mary Lambert

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

James Taylor

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

John Oates

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

If someone was playing that kind of music somewhere, that's where she wanted to be.

He was all over where there was music.

Chris Stapleton

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

Reid Scott

I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.

Janet Fitch

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

Joseph Altuzarra

I always listen to music while I draw.

Josh Klinghoffer

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Tori Kelly

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

Tom Scholz

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Rutina Wesley

I grew up with a wide range of music.

I have a recorder in my room, and when I record my voice, I'll be screaming in the microphone. And there's no other music anywhere, so people think I'm crazy, in my room just screaming.

Darren Shan

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Mike McCready

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

Miyavi

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

Andre Previn

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

Jacob Whitesides

I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Jeff Ament

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

Jerry Spinelli

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

Jeffrey Osborne

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.