music quotes

“I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.”

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. ”

“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”

“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”

“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”

“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. ”

“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate. ”

“For me the visual is just as important as the music.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”

— Johnny Depp

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. ”

“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. ”

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. ”

“Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. ”

“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. ”

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ”

“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. ”

“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ”

“You are the music while the music lasts. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

“Music is a safe kind of high.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Music is my religion.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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