Music Competition Quotes

#1. I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

Brooke Fraser

#2. The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Rachel Hartman

#3. I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

Kip Moore

#4. The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

Joshua Homme

#5. For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

#6. I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

Doc Brown

#7. Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Langdon Winner

#8. The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

R.C. Sproul

#9. Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

Dave Pirner

#10. Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

Vandana Shiva

#11. There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Suge Knight

#12. Mountains are the only stars we can reach by walking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

Yoko Ono

#14. Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Tony Buzan

#15. The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Abigail Adams

#16. Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

Danny Barker

#17. The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Jagjit Singh

#18. It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.

Tom Ford

#19. As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

Edwin Land

#20. This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.

Jay Kay

#21. Mother Earth is very talented.

Nhat Hanh

#22. I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Cassie Steele

#23. I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#24. My purpose of writing is to express my love for you,
no matter, who you are, where you live or whatever you do.

Debasish Mridha

#25. During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.

Jessica Sanchez

#26. Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

Wendy Starland

#27. I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

Lupe Fiasco

#28. The bleeding, dying, rising Saviour, is the only star of hope to a sinner. Oh for grace to come now and drink, ere the sun sets upon the year's last day!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it ... it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

Ryan Adams

#30. I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Adam Lambert

#31. Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Kathleen Blanco