My Favourite Music Quotes

#1. It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Richard D. James

#2. My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

John Cage

#3. My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.

Stephen Lang

#4. If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

Tony Dungy

#5. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

Kieron Gillen

#6. I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

Richard Fleeshman

#7. I do not have to hear your most favourite music.
I hear your sweet silent music all the time.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 10, 2016
Amen

Petra Hermans

#8. We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

Moby

#10. I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.

Erin O'Connor

#11. I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

Christopher Masterson

#12. My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Robert Palmer

#13. I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

Vijender Singh

#14. I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Geri Halliwell

#15. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

St. Vincent

#16. My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

Anton Du Beke

#17. Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#18. If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

Paul Langan

#19. That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Gaston Caperton

#20. Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

Ariana Grande

#21. A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

Dar Williams

#22. Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Will Rogers

#23. Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

Prince

#24. Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

Robin Gibb

#26. I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#27. Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Guy Berryman

#28. Relax Mara," he said softly, his eyes going super warm. "I don't bite."
I wished he did. I really, really did.

Kristen Ashley

#29. I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don't have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands.

Bella Heathcote

#30. This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

Scott Berkun

#31. I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

Jeremy Fisher

#32. I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.

Alfred Enoch

#33. My favourite songs from literally all my favourite albums are usually always track 10. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Time will tell.

Tyler Hojberg

#34. Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush

Craig Nicholls

#35. The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Andrew Cuomo

#36. I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

Gabrielle Aplin

#37. The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

Zoe Kravitz

#38. I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

Charlie Benante

#39. If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.

Adam Snowflake

#40. My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

Andy Barrie