Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Watson

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Diane Warren

I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!

Hunter Hayes

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

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.

James Vincent McMorrow

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

Annabelle Wallis

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.

Aaliyah

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

Aaliyah

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Abigail Washburn

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

Anna Kendrick

The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

Adam Jones

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

Adam Jones

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

Al Jarreau

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Adam Lambert

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

Brian Eno

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Benny Blanco

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.