Quotes for Music

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

LL Cool J

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

Bobby McFerrin

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

Ry Cooder

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

Damien Chazelle

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

Melanie Martinez

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Tom Waits

My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

Rihanna

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

Dick Dale

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Maya Angelou

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Taylor Swift

My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.

Aretha Franklin

Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!

Ryuichi Sakamoto

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Jobs

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

Melanie Martinez

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Elvis Presley

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

Dick Dale

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Travis Scott

I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It's interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.

Stromae