Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Isaac

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Edward Rutherfurd

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

Eve

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

Elliott Yamin

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Flea

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

Flo Rida

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Flo Rida

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

Common

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.

Ednita Nazario

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Gabrielle Giffords

Music has always been really important to me.

Alex Lifeson

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Blake Shelton

I've never played it safe on my own music.

Blake Shelton

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

Emmy Rossum

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.

When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.

Beck

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

Bruce McCulloch

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

Anthony Hamilton

You have to be who you are when you do music.

Adam Jones

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

Afrika Bambaataa

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrojack

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

Bjork

Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.

Bjork

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

Daniel Tammet

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

Bobby Keys

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

Bahman Ghobadi

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

Banks

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Banks

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

Burning Spear

Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.

Burning Spear

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Burning Spear

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

Burning Spear

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.