Music Quotes
The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
Kris Kristofferson
American singer-songwriter
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Michael Franti
American musician
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
Randy Bachman
Canadian guitarist
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Randy Travis
American singer-songwriter
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
Prince Royce
American singer
The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
Mark Knopfler
British singer-songwriter
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
Lebron James
American professional basketball player
Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.
Caroline Polachek
American singer
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
Michael P. Anderson
Astronaut
Everyone loves the Beatles, but if you really dig into their music, they were actually speaking on things. When you have such a following, you can influence all these people, not only older people, but the younger people. That's where the change starts.
Skip Marley
Jamaican singer.
I listen to Christian music.
Mariano Rivera
Baseball pitcher
I create vibe-y dance music.
Goldlink
American rapper
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.
Peter Bergen
American journalist
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy
American visual artist
You can't make just foot-tapping numbers or take inspiration from Western music. Such songs won't work.
Kumar Sanu
Indian playback singer
I'm thrilled to have Corona join me on my 'X100PRE' Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It's not solely about the music - it's about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.
Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican rapper
As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
Ella Henderson
English singer-songwriter
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
American composer
They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
Donald Byrd
American jazz trumpeter
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
J. D. Souther
American singer
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