Music Quotes

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

Robert Glasper

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Robert Glasper

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Robert Glasper

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

Robert Glasper

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Robert Glasper

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Robert Gottlieb

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Robert M. Gates

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

Robin Gibb

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Robin Gibb

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

Robin Gibb

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Robin Gibb

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

Roxane Gay

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Rupert Graves

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Randy Houser

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

Randy Houser

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Randy Houser

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

Randy Houser

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the...

Randy Houser

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

Rebecca Hall

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in ...

Richard Harmon

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Richie Havens