Best Music Quotes

#1. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Trey Songz

#2. One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Andrew Fletcher

#3. So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Jane Siberry

#4. The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

L.A. Reid

#5. I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Harry Connick Jr.

#6. I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Laurance Rockefeller

#7. When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

Rivers Cuomo

#8. The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence
silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Vinay Kumar

#9. The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

Frank Iero

#10. If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

William Fitzsimmons

#11. Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

Kate Bush

#12. I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

Chris Stapleton

#13. My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.

Michael Hersch

#14. At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Daniel Ek

#15. I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

Keith Murray

#16. The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

Kenny G

#17. You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

John Fogerty

#18. Mullets and questionably tight pants aside, the best music in the world was '80s rock, and I had no qualms about admitting it. I didn't want music that was maudlin and depressing - I wanted music that put me in a good mood and made the world look a little bit brighter.

L. H. Cosway

#19. It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

John Legend

#20. Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

T.I.

#21. Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

#22. Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

Johnny Mathis

#23. The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Mavis Staples

#24. The best music for her was always the stuff you could relate to, the stuff that spoke directly to you and twisted and knotted itself so far into your life you couldn't tell where art ended and reality began.

Stephen Emond

#25. I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

Danny Gokey

#26. I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

Sam Hunt

#27. I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

Jimmy Iovine

#28. Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

Isaac Brock

#29. Love is the best music for heart.

Debasish Mridha

#30. My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

Big Boi

#31. They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

Sean Booth

#32. You write your best music when you're dealing with something. Get it out, dude.

Bella Jeanisse

#33. You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Robert Duvall

#34. I think the best music is honest music.

Elle King

#35. I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

Donald Glover

#36. I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Joe Budden

#37. There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

Carla Bley

#38. I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.

Walker Percy

#39. I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

Lee Ann Womack

#40. If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

Bill Maher

#41. I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lesley Garrett

#42. Some of the best music was composed by Beethovan,but he was deaf,some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton,but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible ...

Shibin Mohammed

#43. I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

Michael Jai White

#44. The best books - like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games - can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us.

Geoffrey Reiter

#45. Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

John Fogerty

#46. The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

Julian Lage

#47. Sometimes the best music is when you just put it out there.

Dreezy

#48. The best music ... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

#49. I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

Terri Clark

#50. You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.

Chris Stapleton

#51. The best music I have ever heard is the sound of my daughter's giggling.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

Vince Staples

#53. If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

Steve Mahoney

#54. I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Puff Daddy

#55. To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

Janet Jackson

#56. What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Mickey Hart

#57. The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

Ted Nugent

#58. I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

Chris Martin

#59. The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

Peter Asher

#60. I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

Wale

#61. I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

Lucy Hale

#62. We ... live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we're in a world that's so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

Neal A. Maxwell

#63. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

James Freeman Clarke

#64. I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Yo-Yo Ma

#65. I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.

Chris Robinson

#66. Music is the best.

Frank Zappa

#67. Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.

Kirk Hammett

#68. I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

Rachel Bloom

#69. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Ville Valo

#70. There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Jenny Colgan

#71. I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.

Bobby Womack

#72. Every now and then when I feel the doubt, I look inside myself and I see the way. The whole world full of possibilities. So you could be you and I could be me.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#73. Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Thia Megia

#74. I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

William Monahan

#75. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Carla Bley

#76. That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Roger McGuinn

#77. I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

John Philip Sousa

#78. I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking.

Heston Blumenthal

#79. Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Matthew Sweet

#80. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#81. I've always tried to be independent. It's just my personality. I've always been the type to motivate the camp. I've always wanted to be the fuel for something - for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I'm doing.

Rita Ora

#82. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.

Tracker's favorite time and music.

Mardi Oakley Medawar

#83. I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.

James Richardson

#84. What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Daniel H. Pink

#85. Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

Jake Owen

#86. There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.

David Archuleta

#87. I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan.

Trace Adkins

#88. Music, dance and meditation are the best medicine for body, soul and spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.

Michael Hersch

#90. There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Miroslav Vitous

#91. Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

#92. Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#93. Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

George Gershwin

#94. First thought, best thought - I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

#95. Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matter what zip code I'm in. I just want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for blessing me with such an incredible career that I truly enjoy.

Trace Adkins

#96. I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ...

Bob Daisley

#97. The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.

Eliza Doolittle

#98. With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

Robert Bringhurst

#99. Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

John Cage

#100. The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

A.R. Rahman