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Quotes About Music

I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
~ Pete Townshend
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
~ Judith Durham
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
~ Steve Lacy
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
~ Irwin Thomas
Conductors are performers.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
~ Leonard Slatkin
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
~ Gabrielle Aplin
It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
~ Zac Brown
Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
~ David Newman
Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.
~ David Bryan
In Adrenaline Mob there are five guys that are all absolutely insanely energetic performers each of their own right. It's like a five-ring circus on stage!
~ Mike Portnoy
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
~ Toni Braxton
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
~ Lara St. John
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
~ Rihanna
I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.
~ Vangelis
I never got nervous performing my own material.
~ Wiz Khalifa
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
~ Charley Pride
There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.
~ Dave Gahan
Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
~ Doug E. Fresh
My background was in performing originally.
~ Cy Coleman
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
~ Rachel Platten
I got to know E'Dawn when he was a trainee, and since becoming friends after performing together, we began dating in May 2016. We began dating after working on our music together.
~ Hyuna