Top 100 Sayings About Making Music
#1. There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars
#2. Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
Chet Faker
#3. I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.
Rachel Platten
#4. I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
Lenny Kravitz
#5. It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
John Hawkes
#6. A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.
Anna Nalick
#7. I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.
Maxwell
#8. A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They don't really take time to grow and appreciate the craft.
LeCrae
#9. Don't you ever forget that, hummingbird. You can go anywhere you want to go, be anything you want to be. Play because you love it and for no other reason. The day you stop loving it is the day it becomes a job. Making music should never be a job.
Tara Sivec
#10. We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
Brian Eno
#11. Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.
Dweezil Zappa
#12. You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#13. I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
John Oates
#14. Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Dave Grohl
#15. Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music."
He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.
Pamela Clare
#16. Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
Dave Grohl
#17. I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
Taylor Hawkins
#19. I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
Snoop Dogg
#20. I work with a lot of music programs and there's a steep learning curve to a lot of them. You can really find yourself trying to figure out how to do things, instead of making music. Now I have another tool with the Surface music kit.
Joe
#21. I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
Bill Mumy
#22. As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
Erin McKeown
#23. I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
Art Alexakis
#24. There's more to being a musician than just making music.
Burning Spear
#25. My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Dave Davies
#26. I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush
#27. Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time.
Justin Bieber
#28. The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.
Amy Winehouse
#29. I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.
St. Lucia
#30. I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.
St. Lucia
#31. Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
Josephine De La Baume
#32. I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
Caitlin Rose
#33. It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
Ronnie Milsap
#34. Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.
Jeff Tweedy
#35. I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.
Hoodie Allen
#36. I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.
Noel Gallagher
#37. It's not a real place, not a real thing. Mom made up the Gray Space, the place of anti-art, antifeeling, the cold dark place that felt like death. It was just her zany way of describing the place she went when she felt most depressed, when making music at all became impossible.
It isn't real.
Kate Ellison
#38. I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
Steve Hackett
#39. I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
Erica Jong
#40. I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.
Patrick Wolf
#41. The life I love is making music with my friends.
Willie Nelson
#42. Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.
Bob Lefsetz
#43. There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#44. we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested.
Fred Moten
#45. I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.
Ariel Rechtshaid
#46. The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.
Ice Cube
#47. My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and ... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
Lorde
#48. I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
Gary Numan
#49. The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.
Skrillex
#50. The human element of making music is what's most important.
Dave Grohl
#51. The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
Mariah Carey
#52. I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.
Arca
#53. Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
Calvin Harris
#54. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
Jonny Greenwood
#55. As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
Jason Molina
#56. I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
Pharrell Williams
#57. For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.
Neneh Cherry
#58. My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.
Doug Martsch
#59. It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.
George Gershwin
#60. No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.
Chris Robinson
#61. The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
Diplo
#62. I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.
Glenn Gould
#63. I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
Dan Reynolds
#64. Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
Alex Van Halen
#65. I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.
Daniel Powter
#66. If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
#67. Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
Bethany Cosentino
#68. I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.
Jerry Pinkney
#69. I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
Jake Bugg
#70. I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Sarah McLachlan
#71. Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.
Stefan Zweig
#72. I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.
Laura Bell Bundy
#73. I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like.
Justin Bieber
#74. I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.
Azealia Banks
#75. Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
Alan Jackson
#76. After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
Blixa Bargeld
#77. When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
G-Eazy
#78. I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
Damon Albarn
#79. Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
Joe Cocker
#80. When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
M. Ward
#81. In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Johnny Mathis
#82. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
Norah Jones
#83. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
Norah Jones
#84. Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
John Coltrane
#85. If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.
Moby
#86. I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.
Hunter Parrish
#88. I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
A.R. Rahman
#89. The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
Calvin Harris
#90. A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.
Gucci Mane
#91. When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
Ayshay
#92. I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
Debby Ryan
#93. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.
Tom Odell
#94. I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.
Stone Gossard
#95. Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.
Simon Price
#96. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
David Byrne
#97. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.
Robert Corbet
#98. I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
Panda Bear
#99. The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.
Liam Gallagher
#100. I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.
Eddie Vedder
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