Top 100 My Music Quotes
#1. Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
John Mayer
#2. It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.
Justin Vernon
#3. I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
Christian McKay
#4. I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.
Dizzee Rascal
#5. My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Zola Jesus
#6. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.
Petey Pablo
#7. I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
Raini Rodriguez
#9. My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.
Heather McDonald
#10. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.
Bruce Springsteen
#11. I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
J. Cole
#12. I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.
Luke James
#13. I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.
Tristan Murail
#14. I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.
Roshon Fegan
#15. It's important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I've done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.
Bryce Dessner
#17. I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.
Ace Hood
#18. I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not that I'm doing drugs.. I just love that feeling. Putting out a feeling and having it really be the one is more addicting than anything in my life now.
Drake
#19. The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
Pink
#20. I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
Neko Case
#21. Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
Warren G
#22. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
Marc Anthony
#23. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
#24. At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.
Tyga
#25. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.
John Berendt
#26. I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
Nancy Sinatra
#27. I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
Link Wray
#28. I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
Drake Bell
#29. Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
Judy Collins
#30. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.
Kina Grannis
#31. I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.
Steve Grand
#32. I have a very difficult time describing my music.
Les Claypool
#33. I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.
Sasha Grey
#34. I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
Don McLean
#35. My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.
Marc Anthony
#36. My music has always been strong in melodic content.
Chuck Mangione
#37. My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.
Le1f
#38. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
Trisha Yearwood
#39. When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.
Jennifer Hudson
#40. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.
Alfred Schnittke
#41. I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.
Drake
#42. When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
J. Tillman
#43. I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.
Janet Jackson
#44. I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
Esperanza Spalding
#45. At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
Halsey
#46. There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers
Marilyn Manson
#47. Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.
Benjamin Clementine
#48. Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
Alan Palomo
#49. I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.
Kenny G
#50. I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.
Owen Pallett
#51. And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
Zola Jesus
#52. I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Mayer Hawthorne
#53. I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
Bradford Cox
#54. My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.
Leon Bridges
#55. I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
Diane Warren
#56. I wanna go play my music in a club.
Joe Jonas
#57. I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.
Jacob Whitesides
#58. I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.
Julian Lennon
#59. I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails! ... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.
Britney Spears
#60. I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Neil Young
#61. Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.
Jana Kramer
#62. My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
David Cassidy
#63. For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.
Bridget Kelly
#64. The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
Talib Kweli
#65. My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.
Eliza Doolittle
#66. I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
Ziggy Marley
#67. Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
Imogen Heap
#69. Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
Ellie Goulding
#70. I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.
Freddie Gibbs
#71. You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.
Ginuwine
#72. I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.
Jose Gonzalez
#73. I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it ... I could only do little riffs and whatever.
Shamir
#74. On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
R. Kelly
#75. Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
FKA Twigs
#76. I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.
Kenna
#77. I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I've been and my feelings about the world.
Aesop Rock
#78. There isn't anything weird about my music.
Frank Zappa
#79. What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on now and still hear something new. It's still relevant. That's how I want my music to be perceived. It's what I strive for.
Goapele
#80. My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
Will Smith
#81. I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
#82. There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.
Chris Botti
#83. Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff
#84. The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
Alan Greenspan
#85. I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.
Alex Gonzaga
#86. The most important thing for me personally is that I can connect with other people through my music. I want my album to be like a trip that people can take with me. My music is like me stripped naked because I open myself up completely.
Chloe Rose Lattanzi
#87. I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
Halsey
#88. When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Florence Welch
#89. I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.
Heather Headley
#90. I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.
Rufus Wainwright
#91. My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.
Imelda May
#92. Until I'm over the hill and over the hump;
I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
Aceyalone
#93. Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
Pat Boone
#94. I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.
Kylie Minogue
#95. Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
Hilary Duff
#96. I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
John Frusciante
#97. It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
Suzanne Collins
#98. I continue to evolve as a human, I see things differently everyday so it's sure my songs will continue to change and it's a really good thing. It's nice to listen to my music and remember why I made it.
Marilou
#99. The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
Jason Mraz
#100. I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
Lance Reddick
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