1,004 Quotes Regarding Music


I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Anthony Hopkins

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Maynard James Keenan

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
Maynard James Keenan

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
Maynard James Keenan

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Lenny Kravitz

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
Sting

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting

Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.
Sting

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
Jimmy Buffett

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.
John Stamos

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
Phil Collins

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.
Jason Mraz

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
Robert Rodriguez

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
George Strait

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Pete Townshend

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

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend