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Quotes About Music

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
~ Leo Ornstein
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
~ St. Vincent
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
~ Keith Jarrett
I'm always busy listening to music or playing PlayStation, I'm never really quiet - I have to be moving.
~ Andreas Pereira
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
~ Fritz Lang
DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.
~ James Murphy
Watching people move to nice music is very pleasant.
~ James May
I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'
~ Arjun Janya
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
~ David Gilmour
My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.
~ Gloria Estefan
I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
~ Lady Gaga
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
~ Jeff Lynne
I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.
~ Jason Aldean
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
~ Carter Burwell
Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!
~ Leona Lewis
I work to please my audience.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
~ Natalie Cole
I did a music festival in France. I'm not going to name names, but there were bigger bands and DJs on before me, and throughout their set, all I could hear them chanting was 'Hodor!' And I was, like, 'Oh, please stop! It's so disrespectful to the other acts!' In a way, obviously, I loved it, but it was kind of embarrassing at the same time.
~ Kristian Nairn
I feel like my music is for everybody. As long as the music is good, I can please everybody.
~ Ne-Yo
Playing in a band, selling records through mail order, and selling clothes - these are all things I love doing. If that can please others, then I couldn't be happier.
~ Yusaku Maezawa
I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.
~ Julia Holter
I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
~ Don Bluth
There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music.
~ Tom Odell