Music Quotes

I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

Rita Ora

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish partic...

Robert Palmer

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

A. R. Rahman

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Robbie Robertson

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Ricky Skaggs

Great music is great music, period.

Ricky Skaggs

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

Ricky Skaggs

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

Ridley Scott

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Rebecca West

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song ou...

Rick Wright

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

Steven Adler

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

Steve Brown

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

Steve Earle

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Stephen Jay Gould

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.

Stone Gossard

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to...

Salma Hayek

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Stjepan Hauser