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Quotes About Music

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.
~ Jim James
I'm a DJ. I get the party started.
~ Avicii
We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.
~ Max Cavalera
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
~ Elton John
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
~ Chris Brown
I pretty much started the lyrics and I hit a roadblock and I think Kerry finished them up. Then I came back and did the ending part. The whole 'Raining Blood.' That part. But it pretty much came together easy. It's a short song.
~ Jeff Hanneman
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
~ Nick Cannon
I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
~ Johnny Depp
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
~ Elvis Presley
I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.
~ Little Richard
Before I was in Girls Aloud, I wanted to be a nanny. But then Girls Aloud started and that ruined that dream!
~ Nadine Coyle
We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.
~ Lemmy
I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I went and got a James Brown record. 'Black Caesar' is a film score, but it's so dope.
~ Kamasi Washington
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
~ Eberhard Weber
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.
~ Tom Araya
I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.
~ Doja Cat
Adam Yauch started the band. It's not like a thing where we could continue without him.
~ Ad-Rock
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
~ John Goodman
I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.
~ Rob Gronkowski
'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
~ Pat Benatar
For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.
~ Paul Oakenfold
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
~ Alvin Lee
It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.
~ Mohit Chauhan
I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.
~ Jencarlos Canela