Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dev Hynes

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

Ray Charles

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Nile Rodgers

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Feist

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Eric Clapton

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

Charles Hazlewood

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

Emma McLaughlin

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.

Estelle

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

Sarah McLachlan

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

Sarah McLachlan

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

Naya Rivera

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.

Luis Coronel

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.

Lynn Anderson

I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.

Lindsey Haun

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

Leon Bridges

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

Leon Bridges

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

Victoria Justice

I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.

Cam Newton

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

David Soul

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

Al Jarreau

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

B. B. King

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

Emily Dickinson

This World is not Conclusion./ A Sequel stands beyond--/ Invisible, as Music--/ But positive, as Sound.

Slash

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Brandon Boyd

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

Tommy Mottola

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Stuart Scott

You've got to be true to who you are and what you do. I'm more of a hip-hop feel person. Music is how you feel. The younger the mind, that's how I wanna be.

Sarah McLachlan

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.