Quotes About Types Of Music

#1. I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

#2. In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

Paul Weller

#3. I'm influenced by all types of music.

Flo Rida

#4. I love that I can play around with all types of music.

R. Kelly

#5. I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop.

Sean Combs

#6. Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

Girl Talk

#7. My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Skrillex

#9. My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

Diana DeGarmo

#10. I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.

John Waters

#11. Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

Common

#12. I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

Moby

#13. I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Timbaland

#14. I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

Brandon Flowers

#15. Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful depending on what people are going through in their lives at any given moment.

Darren Fletcher

#16. I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.

Simon De Pury

#17. A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.

Adam Rodriguez

#18. I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

Peter Steele

#19. I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

Rebecca Ferguson

#20. I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

John Patitucci

#21. He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Solange Knowles

#22. I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Juicy J

#23. A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Art Blakey

#24. You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Abigail Washburn

#25. I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

Nicki Minaj

#26. Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

Moby

#27. I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Elvis Costello

#28. I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Leon Bridges

#29. My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Ziggy Marley

#30. I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

Nick Carter

#31. I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

Chadwick Boseman

#32. I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

Redman

#33. I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

Austin Butler

#34. I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Nigel Kennedy

#35. When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

Killer Mike

#36. My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Travis Barker

#37. There are only two types of music.good and bad.

Buddy Rich

#38. Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.

Gin Wigmore

#39. I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.

Dustin Lynch

#40. I like music, a lot of different types of music.

Raymond Kelly

#41. Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Henry Rollins

#42. I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

Jamie Cullum

#43. I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Sky Ferreira

#44. Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

Wynton Marsalis

#45. I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

Big Boi

#46. In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Danny Elfman

#47. I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.

Taryn Manning

#48. Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Billy Gibbons

#49. When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

Travis Barker

#50. I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

David Byrne

#51. I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Florence Welch

#52. I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Randy Johnson

#53. I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

Laura Pausini

#54. Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Meek Mill

#55. I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music.

Lykke Li

#56. Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

Rachel Stevens

#57. Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.

Ruben Blades

#58. I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

Fantasia Barrino

#59. For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

Moby

#60. I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Amy Lee

#61. I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

Hailee Steinfeld

#62. I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

Louise Brown

#63. I'd like it to be a bit of everything, the kind of music you can dance to, but also something a bit more personal, that you can listen to in other contexts. I think it's very important to maintain the contrasts between the different types of music that I make.

Shook

#64. I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

Serj Tankian

#65. I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

Freddie Highmore

#66. While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Mark Knopfler

#67. There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

Eugene Chadbourne

#68. I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Billy Sheehan

#69. If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dave Barry

#70. There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

Dave Alvin

#71. Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

A.R. Rahman

#72. For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

Avicii

#73. I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.

Benjamin Watson

#74. I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.

Lilly Singh

#75. We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.

Trip Adler

#76. Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

#77. I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

Stacie Orrico

#78. Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

Grandmaster Flash

#79. Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn't go without the other.

Rihanna

#80. There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

Rachel Cusk

#81. To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Brittany Howard

#82. Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

Alan Powell

#83. I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.

Charlie Puth

#84. What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments requesting sheet music. Aspiring poets sharing their work and then borrowing horror stories.

Alan Bennett

#85. There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

Wynonna Judd

#86. I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#87. I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Tinie Tempah

#88. The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.

Michael Hersch

#89. The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

LeCrae

#90. When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Ben Barnes

#91. I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

Frederick Lenz

#92. I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a one-liner, showing I could do stuff about music - so just trying to be versatile and talking about different topics.

Hannibal Buress

#93. 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

#94. If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.

Jadakiss

#95. I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

Action Bronson

#96. I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Rico Love

#97. I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Anthony Minghella