Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naya Rivera

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.

Luis Coronel

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.

Lynn Anderson

I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.

Lindsey Haun

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

Leon Bridges

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

Chino Moreno

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

Abbie Hoffman

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

Matthew Ashford

With Jack, I was always trying to find the positive because they always wrote the negative. I didn't have to be menacing. The music did it for me.

Rivers Cuomo

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

David Byrne

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

Peter Eisenman

I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.

Peter Hammill

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Martin Scorsese

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Michael Cudlitz

I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.

Phillip Phillips

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

Debby Ryan

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

Ariel Pink

My music has always been my solo project.

Annabelle Wallis

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.

Aaliyah

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

Aaliyah

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Abigail Washburn

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

Anna Kendrick

The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

George Gershwin

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Bryan Ferry

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

Ha-Joon Chang

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

Alex Lifeson

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Blake Shelton

I've never played it safe on my own music.

Blake Shelton

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

Emmy Rossum

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.

Colbie Caillat

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

Cornel West

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

E. W. Howe

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.