Quotes for Music

Music should always be an adventure.

Coleman Hawkins

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

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

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

Steve Jobs

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

David Josiah Brewer

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

Dick Dale

Live music is better.

Neil Young

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Martin Scorsese

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

Janelle Monae

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Chuck D

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

Matthew Ramsey

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

Taylor Swift

I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that's where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.

Diplo

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Rodney King

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you, and I find that it's all over the score of 'Hamilton.'

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

Jenni Rivera

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

Maurizio Cattelan

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Jamie Foxx

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Fritz Lang

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

Derek Walcott