909 private quotes tagged music

“I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.” — Katy Perry

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“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.” — Nina Simone

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“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” — Ice Cube

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“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” — Van Morrison

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“Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?” — Beth Ditto

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“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.” — Billy Joel

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“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” — Elvis Presley

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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” — Ingmar Bergman

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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Steve Martin

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“So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.” — Smokey Robinson

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“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” — Tupac Shakur

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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” — Ray Charles

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“I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.” — Neko Case

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“I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.” — Barry White

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“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.” — Marilyn Manson

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“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Music was important. Football was the easy part.” — Zinedine Zidane

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“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.” — Ville Valo

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“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.” — Steve Martin

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“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” — Henny Youngman

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“Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.” — Eddie Vedder

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