Quotes of: Music-world Keyword

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? ...

Orson Scott Card

Musical freedom has always been very strong for me, something to strive for, to be able to play the music you enjoy playing rather than playing music that other people want to hear, which I find rather shallow and unrewarding. So I make albums I like...

Alvin Lee

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music m...

Mary J. Blige

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set...

Bob Seger

Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt...

Schoolboy Q

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage...

Henry Rollins

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

Elliott Yamin

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

Russell Smith

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Robbie Williams

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

THE AWFUL RIFFMAKER

Bloom to the fullest along the cutting edges of life.

Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music at Night and Other Essays

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

Katee Sackhoff

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Klaus Schulze

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Maynard Ferguson

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

Wynonna Judd

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Casey James

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

Len Cariou

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

Chick Corea

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

Dwayne Hickman