Music Quotes

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Emmylou Harris

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

Emmylou Harris

An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.

Emraan Hashmi

Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it's a big stress reliever.

Erin Heatherton

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E. Y. Harburg

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

Ella Henderson

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Enrique Iglesias

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

Enrique Iglesias

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

Enrique Iglesias

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Ernie Isley

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Elfriede Jelinek

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

Elton John

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Elton John

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Elton John

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elton John

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elton John

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Elton John

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Emmanuel Jal

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

Emmanuel Jal

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

Emmanuel Jal