Music In My Life Quotes

#1. I don't have a problem baring my emotions in music. That's one of the reasons I'm glad to have music in my life. I'm pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

Shelby Lynne

#2. If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Marsha Norman

#3. But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Ben Harper

#4. So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

Taylor Swift

#5. I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

#6. I've never known how to read music in my life.

Ronnie Montrose

#7. Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Matthew Healy

#8. Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

Naya Rivera

#9. If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

James Hetfield

#10. The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

Tyler Hilton

#11. I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

Jack Black

#12. My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

Elvis Stojko

#13. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

Jessye Norman

#14. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

#15. I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

#16. I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

Sammy Hagar

#17. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.

Josephine De La Baume

#18. I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

Diana DeGarmo

#19. Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

Ken Dodd

#20. You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Erol Alkan

#21. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Steven Adler

#22. In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

Kelis

#23. I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

Tiesto

#24. Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

Alfred Molina

#25. The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me.

Zella Day

#26. The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

Ezra Miller

#27. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Gloria Estefan

#28. Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Angelique Kidjo

#29. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Busta Rhymes

#30. I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.

Milla Jovovich

#31. The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Ken Hill

#32. And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Philip K. Dick

#33. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#34. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa

#35. Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

John Varvatos

#36. Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Lauren Ambrose

#37. I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Flea

#38. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Clare Bowen

#39. My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Michael Jackson

#40. There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

R. Kelly

#41. Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Kenny G

#42. I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

Clive Davis

#43. Music is the medium ... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

Stephen Marley

#44. For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

Miranda Lambert

#45. In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Charles Mingus

#46. Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.

Jack Johnson

#47. Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

Robert B. Parker

#48. From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me ... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

Danielle De Niese

#49. I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

Ellie Goulding

#50. When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Flea

#51. One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

Bonnie Raitt

#52. It's very strange what happens when I start working for a film. In my life I've done a lot of stuff - I did a lot of dance music, a lot of TV shows and lots of different types of films - and every time it is a new experience.

Claudio Simonetti

#53. Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.

Rami M. Shapiro

#54. Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

Nolan Sotillo

#55. Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.

Milla Jovovich

#56. Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

Roy Ayers

#57. Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

Muriel Barbery

#58. The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human - not just primitive - that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop ... reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

Michael Torke

#59. Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

Arthur Rubinstein

#60. I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

Edward Norton

#61. I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Sandra Bullock

#62. I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.

Richard Patrick

#63. I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in the '90s is just unbeatable.

Brandy Norwood

#64. Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#65. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

Trey Songz

#66. I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Amy Winehouse

#67. My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

Gloria Estefan

#68. Music is forever. Music is life. Music is something worth believing in...Music is my words, my soul...my muse.

Madison Daniel

#69. Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

#70. Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just go up there, do the song, and they film the video. You do it like a jillion times before that though. Same thing in the studio.

Glenn Danzig

#71. I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

Dick Dale

#72. I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

Zarin Mehta

#73. My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

Olivia Wilde

#74. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Frederick Lenz

#75. Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Ronald Perelman

#76. I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

Lisa Marie Presley

#77. So far, I've only discovered four things that make life worth living for me. My work is one of them." "What are the other three?" Jacob wanted to know. "Music, books, and sex," I said. "Not necessarily in that order." His eyebrows

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#78. I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Tinashe

#79. My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

Arthur Symons

#80. Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

Paris Hilton

#81. I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

Dolly Parton

#82. I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Bijou Phillips

#83. You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Kenny Chesney

#84. Music was my life ... It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.

John Legend

#85. My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

Talib Kweli

#86. To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.

Danny Fox

#87. Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.

Tinie Tempah

#88. My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

Ziggy Marley

#89. You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

Fred Durst

#90. [My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

Rodney Crowell

#91. I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

Dhani Harrison

#92. To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me in a lot of ways. It's helped me get through some tough times.' That's the best compliment that you could get.

Kip Moore

#93. I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Moby

#94. If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Ariana Grande

#95. I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Donna Leon

#96. I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.

Alyson Stoner

#97. My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

Kenny Rogers

#98. I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Billy Corgan

#99. I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

Sheryl Crow

#100. I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

Eric Drooker