Quotes of: Musical Keyword

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

Mika

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

Margot Robbie

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

Mary Roach

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

Mick Rock

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Mick Ronson

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Marilyn vos Savant

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Michelle Shocked

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Michael Tippett

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Wainwright

Lata Mangeshkar is a living legend. She has enthralled millions of hearts all over the world with her music.

Nita Ambani

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Nayvadius Cash

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Neil Finn

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Nicola Formichetti

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

Nellie McKay

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

Nile Rodgers

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

Nas

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Nina Simone