Music Quotes

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Music will save the world.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I never listened to country music growing up.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Music isn't only a profession.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.