Top 185 Musically Quotes

Music critics think of lyrics first and don’t consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that’s why they become classics.

Look at me as a man who performed works musically. Who uplift people who need upliftment, mentally, physically, economically – all forms. Who told the people to live with love ’cause only love can conquer war, and to understand themselves so that they can understand others.

We’ve always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we’re the only people who play more than one note. I’m not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey’s playing.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, ‘The Stones this, and the Stones that.’ I’ve never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

I live a normal life. But I’m always thinking about what I’m going to do next, musically. ‘Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?’

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for ‘Watch The Throne’.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that’s what I want to do: start creating beats.

Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.

No, we’ll never get back together. We’ll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she’ll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she’s on. Because she’s doing something very original.

I dunno… I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of like… I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m still… just not… in sync. I don’t know how to explain it. I just am.

I’ve always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I’m trying to work through musically.

After my second-to-last record, ‘The Greatest’, I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn’t play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it’s not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn’t been challenging myself to learn musically.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

I never compromised myself musically.

I’ve been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I’ve been listening.

We’ve matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We’ve also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.

It’s a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I’m just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.

‘Love Letter’ is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album – and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album – it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I’ll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it’s been good to be involved completely musically as well.

I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.

Soul music as we’ve always known it hasn’t changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I’m doing is really legitimate musically.

Jimmy Fallon’s strengths are that he’s fun, and he’s good at impressions, and he’s musically inclined. And my strength is that I’m a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that’s not a talent per se, but it’s just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.

I took my daughters to see Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum in L.A. in 2012. It was an amazing experience because she is such a revolutionary artist. Everybody was like, ‘Oh, it’s Yoko, it’s such a joke.’ But it’s no joke what she did, visually and musically. It’s incredible.

In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it’s the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.

I don’t want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

I’ve never acted with my father, but we have always connected through music. He has been a great influence musically. He has always been encouraging about my music and is always happy when I sing.

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

We’ve never been a musically fashionable band. We’ve been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following the trends.

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in ’57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we’d never been to England at that point, so musically it’s kind of sometimes hard to place where we’re from.

Anything that’s resolvable is boring, musically. And if it’s too chaotic, you don’t feel tension; it’s chaos.

Aly and I went through just a long period of time where we just didn’t feel creative musically. And, you know, we went through the whole writer’s block thing, and we went through having two pretty successful records and figuring out how we want to transition as adults.

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue, before anybody was dip-dyeing their hair. And streaks of pinks and purples and whatnot.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early ’90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don’t get it at all.

It turns out that I’m far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

I’m lyrically driven, I’m not musically driven.

I don’t listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it’s very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn’t have the best hooks on every track.

I’m very ambitious, musically – I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.

Musically, I’m always inspired by the legends like Barbra Streisand.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

It’s always my mission to try to do something that hasn’t been done before, whether that’s musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

Musically, I didn’t relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there – I don’t think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

I felt like for it to really turn into something, you have to jump in with both feet. And it always turns out a little different than you imagined it, but that’s kind of the beauty of it, when you feel musically confident enough to just kind of follow where it goes.