Home / Topics / Music Quotes

Music Quotes

Browse 6488 quotes about Music.

Music Quotes

“Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.”

Music Wonderful Style Singing Romantic Jazz Eras Intimate Broadway Armstrong

Author:Tony Bennett

“Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.”

Knows Way Want Feels Bigs Secret Music Style Singing

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.”

Wells Done Music Hell Style Music Is Darling Great Ones

Author:John Lennon

“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”

Should Sound Music Generations Style Ocean Ears My Time Capture Mud Annoyance

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music. Within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.”

Knows Mean Different Country Whole Guy Lines Rooms Music Support Audience Style Cold Stones Florida Buddy Really Mean Georgia Bros Brandy Stone Cold

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.”

Music Style Succeed Jazz Musical Substance Settling

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”

Writing Done Would Be Song Music Meditation Style Yoga

Author:Sting

“The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.”

Important Ideas Music Style Jazz Jazz And Life

Author:Ornette Coleman

“Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.”

Thinking Moments Music Style Particular Yeah Jazz Appropriate

Author:Charlie Hunter

“Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.”

Ifs Kind May Music Style Music Is Jazz Composition Jazz Music

Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.”

Ability Music Influence Style Jazz Musical Diverse Musical Style

Author:Andrew S. Gilbert

“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”

“Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.”

Different Lasts Young Song Music Style Songwriting Bob Dylan Rough Times Different Styles Haggard Hank Williams

Author:Dolly Parton

“I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.”

Way I Can Play Music Player Style Standards Jazz Plenty Turf

Author:Jorma Kaukonen

“It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.”

Littles Beautiful Enjoy Music Style Honesty Jazz Enjoyable Drummer

Author:Elvin Jones

“For me, music and life are all about style.”

Music Style Jazz Music And Life Jazz And Life

Book:Miles, the autobiography

Source: Miles, the autobiography