Top 100 Quotes About Good Music
#1. I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
A-Trak
#2. After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.
Matt Tong
#3. That's why we must keep watering the heart with positive surrounding and listening to good music and watching good entertainment.
Undefeated
#4. When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
Ava Gardner
#6. If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.
Willie Nelson
#8. From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
Tom Araya
#9. I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.
Howard Lawrence
#10. I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
Herbie Hancock
#11. Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
#12. Having problems with people don't get me paid. So, that ain't me. I support those that support me. Gucci, Rocko, Nicki, Rick Ross, Drake, Tyga, whoever you want to put in the list, I'm working with them and they are all down with me. I just make good music.
Drumma Boy
#13. The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
Thom Yorke
#15. Good music always defeats bad luck.
Jack Vance
#16. If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.
Luke Bryan
#17. Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.
Sloane Stephens
#18. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.
Big Sean
#19. An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.
French Montana
#21. As Duke Ellington once said, "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to "good" music transcends questions of genre.
Haruki Murakami
#22. A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.
Alister MacKenzie
#23. One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video
Donal O'Callaghan
#24. I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.
Rick Rubin
#25. People are just really overreacting. It's just feel good music. We at Virgin are in no way promoting sex or whatever these media outlets continue to print.
Jermaine Dupri
#26. Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.
Steve Jordan
#27. It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way.
Lauren Myracle
#28. My aim is just to make good music every single time.
Lil' Wayne
#29. There's nothing you're searching for that can't be found in Ireland-God, good music, beautiful landscapes, wonderful food, maybe even parts of yourself. You just have to be brave enough to look.
Jenny B. Jones
#30. Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn't have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it.
Jason Mraz
#31. I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
Meek Mill
#32. I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
Bobby McFerrin
#33. There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
Duke Ellington
#34. One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
Robert Moog
#35. We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos.
Graham Nash
#36. You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
Leif Garrett
#37. Good music can act as a guide to good living.
Kay Larson
#38. In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.
Galcher Lustwerk
#39. I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.
ASAP Rocky
#40. Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
John Philip Sousa
#41. All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music ... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
Jay Kay
#42. As long as it's good music, that's what's important.
Tom Araya
#43. I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
Anton Corbijn
#44. If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.
Vera Stanley Alder
#45. There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
Paul Hindemith
#46. I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa
#47. The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#48. It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb
#49. When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
Lil' Kim
#50. I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
Glenda Jackson
#51. All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
Taio Cruz
#52. Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#53. Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
Jessie Ware
#55. It takes a special ear to appreciate the many sounds of good music.
Xela Ffonrims
#56. I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
Ne-Yo
#57. I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.
Alison Sweeney
#58. Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.
Anthony Bourdain
#59. I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
Estelle
#60. I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.
Willie Nelson
#61. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
#62. Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Levon Helm
#63. Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.
Felix Buxton
#64. I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.
Pras Michel
#65. I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.
Greg Lake
#66. I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.
Justin Bieber
#67. It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.
Dan Harmon
#68. Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.
Tim McGraw
#71. Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.
Daniel Tosh
#72. I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.
Rahki
#73. Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
Miles Davis
#74. My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.
Vance Joy
#75. Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.
Conor Oberst
#76. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh
#77. I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
LaMarr Woodley
#78. Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.
Bob Schneider
#79. I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.
John Bush
#80. He waited, listening with deep enjoyment, for the end of the sonata. In the still, twilit corridor it sounded so lonely and unworldly, and so brave and innocent also, both childlike and superior, as all good music must in the midst of the unredeemed muteness of the world.
Hermann Hesse
#83. What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
Miles Davis
#84. Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.
Common
#85. What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.
Afrika Bambaataa
#86. What softened your heart?" I asked softly.
"Good music and a friend."
I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power"
"So does friendship," he supplied frankly.
Amy Harmon
#87. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.
Will Self
#88. The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
Albert Einstein
#89. Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.
Tito Jackson
#90. I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.
John Burroughs
#91. The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
Martin Luther
#92. I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.
Norman Reedus
#93. I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.
Shamir
#94. I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.
Big K.R.I.T.
#95. I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.
Ruben Studdard
#96. If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.
Korky Paul
#97. The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say. The radio stations that play the kind of music you were talking about, I don't think me and Curt Smith would be that inclined to listen to. It doesn't really affect us and I certainly don't remember the last time I watched MTV.
Roland Orzabal
#98. I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
#99. A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
Ruggiero Ricci
#100. To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
Dave Haywood
