Music Quotes

Well, I get excited about music.

Anthony Kiedis

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

Abbey Lincoln

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Adam Lambert

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Adam Lambert

I'm very inspired by past music.

Adam Lambert

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Adam Lambert

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

Adam Lambert

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Adam Levine

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

Adam Levine

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

Alan Lomax

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Alexander Ludwig

Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our mu...

Alex Lifeson

I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

Alex Lifeson

I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

Alex Lifeson

I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Alex Lifeson

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Alex Lifeson

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogethe...

Alex Lifeson

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

Alex Lifeson