Quotes for Music

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Gyorgy Ligeti

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Taio Cruz

Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig and I want to create that atmosphere for people.

Becky Hill

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

Maxwell

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

Joe Hisaishi

I think I'm probably gonna quit music.

Justin Bieber

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

Melanie Martinez

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

Orlando Brown

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

Tommy Shaw

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

Dickey Betts

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

Sia

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Isaac Stern

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Cyndi Lauper

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Frederick Delius

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

Ray Charles

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Chris Martin

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

Kim Deal