Top 160 Good Music Quotes

Any good music must be an innovation.

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

I feel sexy when I’m natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.

I come from such a small place, and I’ve always really thought that if you make good music, then people will find it.

You know, I’m the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn’t do the 50 Cent sales but hey… I got a long career, I’m still young and I’m trying to bring really good music.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

I’ve never been in this business to make money. I’ve always been in it to make good music.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I just want to make good music, and as long as I’m happy with it, the charting isn’t that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you’re very happy with and also having it at Number One!

When we came out, they just labelled us ‘ratchet music’ cos we said ‘ratchet’ a lot. Ratchet means that’s it’s ghetto, but I would just call the music we’re making just good music.

You make some good music, people are gonna find you.

Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn’t good music – mums would buy the albums for their kids – it was all about the gimmicks.

I’ve been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it’s good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon’s voice and Thurston Moore’s voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Working on good music is what brings happiness to my heart and I cannot think of a better way to spend my birthday.

There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.

I’m just gonna keep making good music and continue to stay in tune with the people and with reality.

Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck to who they were. They weren’t relying on radio like a lot of people are in Nashville.

Good music is good music.

The equipment doesn’t matter, it’s the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

It’s difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I’ll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That’s what defines good music to me – if it makes me truly feel something.

As long as it’s good music. I love all music. It’s got to be constructed properly.

I always feel like there’s something magic in recording studios. There’s a reason good music continues to be made in them. It’s just some mojo element.

I’m a musician and I go places and perform to people that want to listen to good music.

Everything is temporary. I don’t know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I’m a good music provider, and I’m fine with that. I’m a quality music manufacturer.

I love to swim and listen to good music.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I’m onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

Just make good music.

Good music makes you feel something.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

Good music is good music.

I actually really like DJ Assault – a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who’s produced good music that’s influenced me a bit.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said ‘Yo that guy makes good music. When he gives us an effort, it’s good music behind it. It’s great lyrics, it’s witty punchlines, it’s great metaphors.’

Whether I’ve been here three years or 10 years, my agenda is still in the same place as it was when I first came in: it’s to continue to make good music, and raise the bar to grow and evolve as a person, as an artist, as everything; just to be a better me.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old – I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the ’90s.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that’s a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

I like Kanye West… he makes good music.

I’ve always loved good music; I’m not really fussed where it comes from.

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that’s what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

I make good music for long journeys.

I’ve always been a fan of Nigerian artist D’banj. He’s now signed to Kanye West’s Good Music label.

It’s good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

I’m one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

I’m just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I keep making good music, everything’s going to be OK.

If you’ve got the power of the streets and the people, anything can happen and good music will always come to the top.

My mother made me listen to Carnatic music saying that only then I will be able to appreciate any good music. But what this has also done for me is that I’m unable to accept modern-day cinema songs.

When I first got started, I used to say I just want to stay in the studio, I want to make good music, I want to sing my heart out, and I didn’t think I’d have people following me to a grocery store or following me home or stuff like that.

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it’s good music.

It’s not my aim to be this, like, ‘savior for females.’ I just want to make good music.

My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring.

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

When I make a lot of really good music with someone, I want to let the world hear it right now; unfiltered. I don’t think it has to be more complicated than that.

I like when pop is still good music; that’s what I like.

As long as it’s good music, that’s what’s important.

If you want to hear good music, good music will always be found.

I don’t feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it’s all genuinely clever, good music.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don’t care who wrote the songs.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless – as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it’s a shame that we couldn’t make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

I’m a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I’ve been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

I definitely love touring with Yachty. His fans are honestly really nice, because I’ve been in front of some mean crowds. They’re definitely a diverse, alternative crowd that just want to hear good music and have a good time.

The women are my biggest supporters so I have to make good music for them too. Afrobeats is also often always about sexy women; we are simply celebrating the female form.