Quotes about music

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it’s safer back there. If you’ve ever heard today’s country music, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Bob Dylan

I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.

Nas

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

Usher

Why isn’t it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it’s ok. It’s music, it’s hip-hop, it’s ground breaking. When I do it, it’s war.

Tupac Shakur

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Taylor Swift

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.

Barack Obama

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

John Dewey

I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.

Mary J. Blige

The music does bring us together and it’s cheaper than therapy!

Dolly Parton