909 private quotes tagged music

“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.” — Fiona Apple

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“I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.” — Jimmy Page

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“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.” — Joni Mitchell

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“I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.” — Rashida Jones

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“But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.” — Eric Clapton

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“Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.” — Eric Clapton

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“Music breaks my heart constantly.” — Rashida Jones

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“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.” — Truman Capote

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“Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.” — Peter Tork

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“I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.” — Joni Mitchell

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“You can never stop discovering music.” — Rashida Jones

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“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.” — Barry White

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“Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.” — Jessica Simpson

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“I love slow music.” — Norah Jones

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“I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.” — Danny Boyle

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“I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.” — John Mayer

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“In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.” — Lorin Maazel

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“Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.” — Norah Jones

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“When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.” — Norah Jones

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“I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.” — Danny Boyle

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“I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.” — Dennis Prager

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“Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.” — Talib Kweli

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“My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?” — Katherine Jenkins

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“I write music with an exclamation point!” — Richard Wagner

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