Music Quotes

I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

Magic Johnson

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Mahalia Jackson

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

Maria Jeritza

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Maurice Jarre

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Maurice Jarre

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Maurice Jarre

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happe...

Maurice Jarre

I like the old '90s music.

Michael B. Jordan

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

Michael Jackson

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Mick Jagger

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

Maira Kalman

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to l...

Mako

Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.

Maria Doyle Kennedy

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

Marian Keyes

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Knopfler

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Mark Knopfler

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Mark Knopfler

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Mark Knopfler

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Maynard James Keenan