Top 100 Your Music Quotes
#1. Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it ... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd
#2. The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
Nas
#3. In-Between the strumming of the strings...
a Life is Lived and Ends...
Play your music well, It's All you have to Give
Dr. Marc
#4. The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.
Ray Charles
#5. I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.
Crystal Waters
#6. Black Veil Brides will stand strong for you we will take on the world's hatred so that you don't have to listen to your music way to loud and be as crazy and as "different" as you want to be and always remember you're not alone.
Andy Biersack
#7. Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other times I listen to it and I give myself a pat on the back.
Angel Deradoorian
#8. If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
Cody Johnson
#9. Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.
Dia Frampton
#10. With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.
Hartley Coleridge
#11. I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.
Juan Gabriel
#12. 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
#13. I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you.
Lizzy Plapinger
#14. Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job ... do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ... What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?
Meg Wolitzer
#15. You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.
Michael Hedges
#16. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain
#17. When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
Peter Hook
#18. Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.
Kevin Eubanks
#19. Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates ... and everyone else who hates your music.
Maureen McCormick
#20. There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.
Assata Shakur
#21. There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
Bonnie Raitt
#22. 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
#23. You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
Randy Bachman
#24. Do you remember telling me how you're willing to put up with the pressures of fame if it means you can play your music for people?' When she nodded, he said, 'Making sure my family is happy has been worth any tradeoff.
Bella Andre
#25. Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.
Marilyn Manson
#26. Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.
Classified
#27. If you want to be happy with your music all the time, start exposing yourself to unfamiliar music now, so it will be in the sweet spot by the time you've worn out the old pleasures.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#28. If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way.
Christina Grimmie
#29. You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
Bruce Springsteen
#30. If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
Carl Perkins
#31. The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.
Kris Allen
#32. The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.
Nayvadius Cash
#33. When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen
#34. Don't die with your music still in you
Wayne Dyer
#35. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
Steve Maraboli
#36. Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully ... There are millions of treacherous moments.
David Sheff
#37. You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.
Dave Gahan
#39. But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz
#40. When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
Tove Lo
#41. It's hard to find vehicles for your music.
Nikki Sixx
#42. Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
PJ Harvey
#43. What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell
#44. Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.
Alan Parsons
#45. Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
Mary Lou Williams
#46. When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
Rick Springfield
#47. You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.
Smokey Robinson
#48. My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music ...
James Burton
#49. Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
Geddy Lee
#50. There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
Prince
#52. Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.
Jack Johnson
#53. I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
Greg Graffin
#54. If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Bryan Adams
#55. Focus on your music and not technology.
Bryan Adams
#56. Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.
Mike Powell
#57. You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.
Michael Kiwanuka
#58. It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
Conor Oberst
#59. Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
Jay-Z
#60. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars
#61. Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
Wayne Dyer
#62. There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman
#63. Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.
Panda Bear
#64. Play your music so the earth can dance.
Marty Rubin
#65. It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
Brian Eno
#66. When you make music you have to listen to people's opinions and keep working on your music. A lot of people will try to get you down because they don't realize how much you love it or maybe they are just jealous ... Sure it will never be perfect, but never give up and work until you'll be satisfied!
Marilou
#67. I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft ... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
Chantal Kreviazuk
#68. Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.
Kid Cudi
#69. Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
Eugene Chadbourne
#70. Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!
Peter Shaffer
#71. People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
Andrew Bird
#72. There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it,
Damian Kulash
#73. And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#74. You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
Caleb Johnson
#75. Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.
David Torn
#76. Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all out. Maybe that's why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.
Ava Dellaira
#77. I'm single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.
Kid Rock
#78. In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
Annie Lennox
#79. To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Michael Jackson
#80. If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#81. Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
Victoria Legrand
#82. Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
Brandon Boyd
#83. Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.
Chuck D
#84. You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.
Bruce Springsteen
#85. It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!
Rahki
#86. It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
Tori Amos
#87. I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
Tim McGraw
#88. One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo
#89. Not everyone who comes to Luna's on gig nights is here to see me. Some people are actually more interested in the coffee. Or the scones. Or in hitting on Emily."
"Oh, I didn't say I wasn't' here to hit on Em," I say. "Just that hitting on Em and enjoying your music aren't mutually exclusive.
Sarah Ockler
#90. Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you've existed for a long time in darkness.
Thea Harrison
#91. When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there's nothing better than that.
Aaliyah
#92. I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real.
Ramsey Lewis
#93. If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
Kina Grannis
#94. A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
Maxwell
#95. I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be
Kathleen Hanna
#96. It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
Chris Daughtry
#97. You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.
Jake Owen
#98. Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing ... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
Wynton Marsalis
#99. People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
Pat Benatar
#100. If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.
John Mayer
