Top 100 Music But Quotes
#1. There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
Natalie MacMaster
#2. If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
F. Paul Wilson
#3. I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".
Roger Ross Williams
#4. I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
Alex Lifeson
#5. A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Thomas Beecham
#6. I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.
Larry Howes
#7. My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
Yael Naim
#8. You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.
DJ Spooky
#9. I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.
Jason Mraz
#11. As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews
#12. New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
Wolfgang Puck
#13. I can't help but love all music, but nu disco is my new favorite.
Jade Jagger
#14. You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
Renzo Piano
#15. I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
Eddie Vedder
#16. A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.
Tommy Bolin
#17. I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.
David Bowie
#18. If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.
Jason Mraz
#19. I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.
Rebecca Ferguson
#20. I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.
Elliott Smith
#21. Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
Mel Brooks
#22. Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush
#23. Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania Twain
#24. If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
Jon Secada
#25. There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
Lenny Kravitz
#26. I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
#27. I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.
Jade Jagger
#28. I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
Joaquin Phoenix
#29. People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.
Andy Gray
#30. Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
Calvin Harris
#31. For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
Michael Learned
#32. I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.
Alice Cooper
#33. Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#34. I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
Norah Jones
#35. The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
Jon Fishman
#36. The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
Klaus Schulze
#37. The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.
Duke Ellington
#38. Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
Christopher John Farley
#39. I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.
Moby
#40. I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
Bethany Cosentino
#41. We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
Leo Kottke
#42. There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.
Rodney Stark
#43. There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.
Coleman Hawkins
#44. I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.
Robert Glasper
#45. From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life.
Solange Knowles
#46. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.
Trent Reznor
#47. People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Harrison Birtwistle
#48. Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer
#49. The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.
Jennifer Lopez
#50. I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.
Hilary Duff
#51. Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
Lauryn Hill
#52. I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.
Tim McGraw
#53. I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
Mark Morris
#54. Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.
Mike Scheidt
#55. I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music ... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
Jenny Lewis
#56. Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
Ban Ki-moon
#57. Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.
David Longstreth
#58. Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.
Paul Scheer
#59. I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.
Peter Asher
#60. For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
Tyler Cowen
#61. You can't touch music, but music can touch you
Mordecai
#62. I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
Sterling Knight
#63. In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Zubin Mehta
#64. Life is just like a movie, except it does not have background music, but you cannot see it in media.
Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury
#65. Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
Thomas Bangalter
#66. If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.
Luke Bryan
#67. All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#68. Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
#69. I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
James Vincent McMorrow
#70. I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
Avicii
#71. I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.
Girl Talk
#72. I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#73. Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself
Heinrich Neuhaus
#74. New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.
Stan Ridgway
#75. In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
Adam Lambert
#76. Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
Tom Chapin
#77. I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.
Tom Odell
#78. When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back.
And I always want him to.
J.A. Redmerski
#79. I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
Blake Shelton
#80. I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'
Pink
#81. I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.
Aaron Zigman
#82. Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
#83. I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.
Alexa Vega
#84. I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.
Taraka Larson
#85. If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
Kate Smith
#86. When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
David Boies
#87. Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#88. I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
Kevin Costner
#89. We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.
Stephen King
#90. It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.
Zachary Cole Smith
#91. I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
Mac Miller
#92. Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
James Gibbons
#93. Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!
Miranda Lambert
#94. No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#95. My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.
A.R. Rahman
#96. One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
Robert Moog
#97. For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
Taylor Swift
#98. There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.
Robert Crumb
#99. Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.
Gordon Getty
#100. Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
Norah Jones
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