Music Quotes

I make music because I like making music.

Natalia Kills

I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

Natalia Kills

When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

Natalia Kills

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Nigel Kennedy

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Nigel Kennedy

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Nigel Kennedy

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Nick Lachey

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

Natalia Makarova

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

Natalie MacMaster

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Natalie MacMaster

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape...

Natalie MacMaster

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

Natalie MacMaster

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Natalie Maines

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

Natalie Maines

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Natalie Maines

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

Natalie Maines

I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

Nellie McKay