Quotes on Music
“Sh*t just rhymes—it’s just hypothetical.”
King Von, Music
“I drop a song and these n*ggas quote it. If he looking for me, I’m prolly where his hoe is!”
King Von, Music
“Ain’t got no beat? What the f*ck am I gonna do?”
King Von, Music
“I’m from the streets so I like rap music; that’s what makes up the streets everywhere.”
King Von, Music
“Give positive vibes out even though what we rappin’ about is really just entertainment right now. It’s just music.”
King Von, Goals, Art, Music
"The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I'd like to create and write more music that represents them."
BTS: J-Hope, Goals, Music
“I don’t have no favorite rock bands. I’m a fan of rock music though.”
DJ Khaled, Music
“As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.“
Kendrick Lamar, Music
“Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.”
Kendrick Lamar, Music
“I don’t do black music, I don’t do white music. I do everyday life music.”
Kendrick Lamar, Music
“From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Music
“My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Music
“I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”
Ice Cube, Music, Freedom
“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.”
Ice Cube, Music, Freedom
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
Johnny Depp, Music
“I don’t is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“Inspiration comes from many things, and in the life of KG his music is just one of them.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“Having a musical outlet is a pure blessing to the ears of thousands of fans.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“Music’s the most therapeutic thing for me. Because I suffer with depression, and it’s my only form of releasing it.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“Music is all I have.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“My music is incredible. I don’t know what to call it because I’ve yet to see an artist display the different talents I display or create the different genres that I have created; from The Rock and roll to heavy metal to soft rock to rap to country. I display so many styles. That’s why they love me.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“I know I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.”
Kevin Gates, Music
“Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.”
Kevin Gates, Music, Art
“The things that are most difficult for me to put into words and speak about, I put into my music. I’m just super passionate about my craft and super passionate about what I do.”
Kevin Gates, Music, Art
“One of my most popular songs, ‘Satellites,’ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.”
Kevin Gates, Music, Business
“I don’t just listen to rap.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have gone through, whatever – I rap about it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music, Friendship
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
Victor Hugo, Music
“The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.”
Wendell Berry, Music
“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.”
Margaret Mead, Art, Belief, Music, Love
"Don’t die with your music still in you."
Wayne Dyer, Goals, Music
“You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn’t handle people talking about how fat I was.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“I’ve seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Men are going to go out on the road and they’re going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don’t.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“The female rock-‘n’-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it’s women like her who are going to save the music business.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“For 70 nights, right across America, I’ve been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we’ve been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn’t know. We’re friends now but we can’t forget what happened between us.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Friendship
“Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Goals
“I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals, Music
“Rock and menopause do not mix.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music
“The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don’t make it a rock star.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“It’s really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you’re in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“I watched Janis one time – we opened for her – and that’s the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Most bands people have side projects and it’s not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you’re behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don’t really perform because you can’t. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I’ve never been to a strip club but I turn on MTV and see in every single video what it must look like... if you have to work so hard at appearing sexy, then perhaps you weren’t that sexy after all, perhaps your music has no sensuality, perhaps your music is dull, indeed, that you have no choice but to pelvic thrust your way through a pop video in a leather bikini in order to detract from its mediocrity... it might be advisable to do something else.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Don’t Listen To Her, Listen Through Her.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“It was hard when you practice that hard and you sound that good and everybody tells you that you should be doing something else... You want to say, ‘Obviously we’re not from the same planet’... Lindsey and I just couldn’t understand how we could sing a beautiful song and nobody liked it. It was like, ‘We don’t belong here, nobody understands us.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Listen to the Song of Life.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Goals, Music
"The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung."
Walt Whitman, Music
"Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes."
Andy Warhol, Music
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau, Music
"These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life."
Taylor Swift, Life, Love, Music
"But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
Taylor Swift, Courage, Love, Music
"I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless."
Taylor Swift, Love, Music
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Music
"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."
Taylor Swift, Life, Music
"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."
Taylor Swift, Life, Music
"I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, - and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because "there is no flesh in his obdurate heart."
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. At least, such is my experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion."
Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Justice, Happiness, Music, Belief
"The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love."
John Muir, Nature, Music, Love
"Humor is like music. It’s a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel, you know."
Betty White, Happiness, Music
"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music."
Ronald Reagan, Life, Music
"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."
Bob Marley, Music
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley, Music
"You don't have to stop dancing to enjoy music, you don't also have to stop singing to keep dancing."
russelison.com quotes, Music
"Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Music
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."