Strong Music Quotes

#1. A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

Jon Secada

#2. The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.

MC Lars

#3. It's the least I can do, to come back with some strong music.

Mystikal

#4. O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

Tiesto

#6. There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

Adam Kluger

#7. I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Marc Ribot

#8. I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

Mike Huckabee

#9. Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

Tom Scholz

#10. Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

Afrojack

#11. The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

Ron Pope

#12. 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

#13. There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Joshua Roman

#14. You need to make the music strong, and the philosophy behind the music has to be solid. What the music exudes, what it emits, has to be very strong. It's your thinking that brings you things in life. Part of my philosophy to exceed starts right there.

David S. Ware

#15. There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

Peter Gabriel

#16. Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

J.C. Lillis

#17. There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

Kate Bush

#18. I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

Jim Parsons

#19. Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione

#20. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Manika

#21. Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

Schoolboy Q

#22. For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

Christian Fennesz

#23. Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen

#24. The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jennette McCurdy

#25. One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

Janelle Monae

#26. I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

Moshe Katsav

#27. I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Mark Ronson

#28. I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

Kevin Eubanks

#29. I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

Melanie Martinez

#30. I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

#31. Im not going to change my ways,
just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out,
right, wrong, weak strong,
ashes to ashes all fall down.

Dave Matthews Band

#32. My music has always been strong in melodic content.

Chuck Mangione

#33. The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

Rob Sheffield

#34. Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro in the capital. Grammy-winning Dominican jazz pianist Michael Camilo has had success on a global level. The classical music and ballet

Ginnie Bedggood

#35. Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

Wendy Starland

#36. My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

Vasily Smyslov

#37. Sometimes she heard her father's watch chime: a light sound, as light as a smile. It always soothed her music. When Kestrel played for him, the melody ran sweet, sheer, and strong.

Marie Rutkoski

#38. I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

James Iha

#39. I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.

Gavin Friday

#40. Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

Anne Akiko Meyers

#41. I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

John Fogerty

#42. My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.

Rayvon Owen

#43. I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

Wynton Marsalis

#44. Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

Michelle Kwan

#45. Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

Michael Sweet

#46. I'm glad I had kids young because we have a strong bond and listen to the same music.

Big Boi

#47. The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Samuel George Morton

#48. Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

Franz Werfel

#49. A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches ... Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body ... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.

Mahalia Jackson

#50. My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

Lee Daniels

#51. I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#52. The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

Enrique Iglesias

#53. And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.

L.J.Smith

#54. They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.

Vivien Shotwell

#55. Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#56. That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

Mordechai Vanunu

#57. If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.

Missy Mazzoli

#58. The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Vivian Campbell

#59. Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

Miranda Lambert

#60. I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

Laurence Equilbey

#61. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

Jason Mraz

#62. Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love

Janelle Monae

#63. The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

Tom Waits

#64. Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Erik Parker

#65. You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.

Christina Milian

#66. I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#67. Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Tom Petty

#68. The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

Andrea Bocelli

#69. Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

Carlo Grante

#70. She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong.

Sonya Hartnett

#71. Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

Amy Ray

#72. In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

Nick Cannon

#73. People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Charles Stross

#74. Keep your head up. Keep your heart strong

Ben Howard

#75. When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

Patty Griffin

#76. You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was really hard for me. You have to be tough. You have to make decisions and be a businesswoman.

Rebecca Ferguson

#77. There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

Imelda May

#78. I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

Lou Doillon

#79. The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Bonnie Raitt

#80. For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

Lady Gaga

#81. I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.

Mary Lambert

#82. I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

Jane Wiedlin

#83. I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

James Wolpert

#84. When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

Girl Talk

#85. What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!

Joni Eareckson Tada

#86. My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

Miranda Lambert

#87. My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

Jesse McCartney

#88. The beauty and music ... It is a call ... And some are not strong.

Richard Llewellyn

#89. That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

Skitch Henderson

#90. If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Jerome K. Jerome

#91. Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Stevie Wonder

#92. I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.

Leon Bridges

#93. But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

Van Cliburn

#94. I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

William S. Burroughs

#95. Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

Harvey Keitel

#96. Darwin speculated that "music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph" and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

Oliver Sacks

#97. I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

Andrew Bird

#98. So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.

Mumford & Sons

#99. When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied ... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace

Richard Betts

#100. I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.

Bucky Pope