1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.
James Iha

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
David Byrne

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
David Byrne

There's more good music being made now than ever before.
David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
David Byrne

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
Nuno Bettencourt

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David Byrne

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
John Entwistle

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
David Byrne

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
David Byrne

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
David Byrne

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
Maynard James Keenan

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Amanda Seyfried

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
Gerard Way

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain