Quotes for Music

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Ozzy Osbourne

People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base.

Lil Peep

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

George Strait

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Taylor Swift

I really don't know anything about music.

Sia

The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.

Alex Morgan

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Ray Charles

I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.

Nina Simone

Composing music is hard work.

John Williams

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

Peggy Fleming

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Snoop Dogg

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

Juice Wrld

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Taylor Swift

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Felix Mendelssohn

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

Henry Mancini

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

George Clinton

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'

Jack Jones