Music Quotes

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

John Deacon

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

John Dryden

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Jonathan Davis

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

Jonathan Davis

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Jonathan Davis

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Jonathan Demme

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

Joyce DiDonato

If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

Justin Deeley

The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

Jackie Evancho

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, t...

Jennifer Egan

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Jesse Eisenberg

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we lik...

Joe Elliott

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Joe Elliott

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

John Eaton

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

John Eaton

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

John Eaton

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

John Eaton

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

John Edward

We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge