Music Entertainment Quotes

#1. I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

Jon Anderson

#2. My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.

Noah Emmerich

#3. For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Jacques Audiard

#4. I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'

Greg Graffin

#5. Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.

Jon Stewart

#6. The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and fought.

Richard Bruce Winders

#7. why to get stress or get bore ..
When you have flipdark to get ultimate entertainment

Donald

#8. Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Nicholas Kristof

#9. I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Tony Hawk

#10. My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

Nile Rodgers

#12. The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

Pythagoras

#13. In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

Serj Tankian

#14. Praise and worship shouldn't be a few hour church service entertainment. It should be our heartbeat and should never depart our lips. 'Let us come before him with thanks giving and extol him with music and song' (Psalms 95:2).

Euginia Herlihy

#15. In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

Richard L. Brandt

#16. I'll never stop acting, but music is another passion of mine. I just love creating projects in the entertainment field and performing onstage or in front of a camera.

Katherine McNamara

#17. Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Mark Cuban

#18. I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Bill Mumy

#19. That's why we must keep watering the heart with positive surrounding and listening to good music and watching good entertainment.

Undefeated

#20. It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

John Cage

#21. Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

Jhonen Vasquez

#22. Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Andy Taylor

#23. Children, who once looked to their parents for leadership, now turn to their teachers for knowledge, their peers for wisdom, and their music and televisions for entertainment.

David D'escoto

#24. Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#25. For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

Jung Chang

#26. To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment - and it's the best life I could ever hope for.

Blake Lewis

#27. Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

Margaret Atwood

#28. Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

#29. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Glenn Beck

#30. I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

Corey Hart

#31. That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Kurt Cobain

#32. Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor

A.O. Storm

#33. Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

William C. Bryant

#34. I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.

Naturi Naughton

#35. That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

Ace Frehley

#36. I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.

Bobby McFerrin

#37. When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

James Wolk

#38. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Jack Black

#39. Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing

Peter Tosh

#40. 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

#41. The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Bobby Vinton

#42. It was my dad's idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it's right, I use music in that light.

Ziggy Marley

#43. When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Pete Townshend

#44. Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

Nelson Mandela

#45. Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

Jodi Picoult

#46. But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

Van Cliburn

#47. Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Youssou N'Dour

#48. Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Patrick Rothfuss

#49. Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Pete Townshend

#50. I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Chris Cornell

#51. I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Ian Jackson

#52. The piano is the social instrument par excellence ... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Jacques Barzun

#53. Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

Jim Berg

#54. I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.

Kevin Durand

#55. Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

Sheryl Crow

#56. For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Wim Wenders

#57. Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

Stephen Amell

#58. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Ziggy Marley

#59. I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Juliana Hatfield

#60. I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Freddie Mercury

#61. All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.

Darren Shan

#62. Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Ezra Taft Benson

#63. I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

Latif Mercado

#64. 'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#65. 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

#66. Donna Summer... Is a singing sensation who brings joy to all music lovers, a gifted individual and major figure in the entertainment world whose colourful melodies and tales stay eternally in every fan's heart.

Nik A. Ramli

#67. With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

Hedi Slimane

#68. inquiries. You will feel it in the music and cherish it as the most magical part of the jazz idiom. If you don't, you can always leave the jazz club and check out a rock or pop covers band. That's perfect entertainment for people who want to live in the realm of perfect replication. Jazz, in

Ted Gioia

#69. The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

George Lucas

#70. There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

Ivor Novello

#71. My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

Yancy Butler

#72. Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Bill Bruford

#73. Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

Loren Weisman

#74. I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)

Rob Williams

#75. Nd songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

Bob Dylan

#76. What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

Laura Bell Bundy

#77. 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

#78. I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

Lindsey Stirling

#79. What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

Billy Corgan

#80. Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Edward Abbey

#81. To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement ... but therapy ... for actuating ... the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

John Diamond

#82. I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Q-Tip

#83. I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Rick Ross

#84. When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

Mary Hart

#85. I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

Sean Combs

#86. Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

Ziggy Marley

#87. My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

Kailash Kher