Quotes About Music

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.

Love Scars' blew up pretty fast.

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.

Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.

Music is really important to me; Kurt Cobain is important to me. Hearing Nirvana was pretty life-changing.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

The polarity of Mitch Mitchell and Moe Tucker offers a pretty good understanding of what a drummer's role is.

I think my ear is pretty good, but I don't have formal training so my ear isn't that good. I know when I like a sound.

I have a pretty good ear.

I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.