Music Quotes

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At th…

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Pop music has progressed.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.