Quotes of: Musical Keyword

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Austin Carlile

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Ani DiFranco

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Ahmet Ertegun

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Aleksey Igudesman

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.

Aaron Koblin

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Alex Kapranos

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Alison Krauss

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

Adam McKay

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

Alex North

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Agnes Obel

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

Andy Summers

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

Abigail Washburn

I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

Andrew Wyatt

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Al Yankovic

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Benjamin Booker

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Billy Corgan

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Bing Crosby

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Brian Eno