Music Quotes

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

Leah LaBelle

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

Leona Lewis

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live m...

Leona Lewis

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

Leona Lewis

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

Lindsay Lohan

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fing...

Lisa Loeb

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than wr...

Lisa Loeb

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

Lisa Loeb

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lisa Loeb

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Loretta Lynn

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loretta Lynn

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Loretta Lynn

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Loretta Lynn

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Loretta Lynn

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Loretta Lynn

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Lucy Larcom

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

Lulu

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

Lydia Lunch

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

Lydia Lunch