Quotes of: Music-is-my-life Keyword

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

Dave Davies

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Nick Cave

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

Robert Fripp

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Kiefer Sutherland

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

Al Jourgensen

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Jeff Tweedy

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Bob Seger

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

Jessie Mueller

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Bill Kreutzmann

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Billy Sherwood

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Paul McCartney

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Robert Moog

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Katy Perry

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

Peggy Fleming

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Scott Weiland

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Young Jeezy

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

Al Jarreau

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

Bridgit Mendler