Top 80 Live Music Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Live Music Quotes from famous people such as Carla Bley, Michael Rapino, John Rzeznik, Tessa Virtue, Du Yun, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn’t as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley
Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.
Michael Rapino
One of the things about live music that’s so incredibly important and can’t be replaced and automated is the common focus of a room full of people having that human contact and being immersed in the sensory overload of a rock concert.
John Rzeznik
We’ve had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.
Tessa Virtue
It’s about how you’re using the space. That’s what makes live music.
Du Yun
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
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
Brian Eno
I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.
Alex Scott
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Dhani Jones
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that’s a shame.
Michael Giacchino
One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston’s Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.
Jon Taffer
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
Henry Rollins
I love live music and I love to see people’s faces when I’m performing.
Leighton Meester
I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
Mark Zupan
I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.
Anthony Hamilton
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it’s very important to do together. It’s much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it’s an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that’s not a videogame.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Quite frankly, I’ve always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
Boz Scaggs
‘Lost,’ at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.
Michael Giacchino
Live music is healthy.
John Lydon
There’s nothing better than live music, I think.
Sam Palladio
Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. ‘Top Of The Pops,’ ‘CD:UK’ and shows like that have gone, and it’s bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.
Leona Lewis
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it’s very important to do together. It’s much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it’s an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that’s not a videogame.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it’s more DJs and dance parties.
Sturgill Simpson
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Dhani Jones
I think I was made for live music. It’s just great.
Fantastic Negrito
Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig and I want to create that atmosphere for people.
Becky Hill
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that’s a shame.
Michael Giacchino
It’s been really interesting watching people’s reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there’s a camera in front of their face.
Brandon Boyd
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it’s awful.
Leslie Mann
There wasn’t a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Terry Teachout
I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
Mark Zupan
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the

I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
I love seeing live music.
Jessica Szohr
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
Adam Ant
I love live music and I love to see people’s faces when I’m performing.
Leighton Meester
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
Jon Batiste
It’s about how you’re using the space. That’s what makes live music.
Du Yun
Live music is so powerful. You can really feel things that you will remember forever. I remember going to my first gig and I want to create that atmosphere for people.
Becky Hill
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Gunther Schuller
I love watching live music. It’s one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.
Martie Maguire
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Paul Rodgers
There’s nothing better than live music, I think.
Sam Palladio
Live music is better.
Neil Young
The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.
Chris Thile
It’s been really interesting watching people’s reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there’s a camera in front of their face.
Brandon Boyd
I’m a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I’ll leave it to the professionals.
Colin Morgan
We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
Ron White
Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it’s more DJs and dance parties.
Sturgill Simpson
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
Tommy Shaw
Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. ‘Top Of The Pops,’ ‘CD:UK’ and shows like that have gone, and it’s bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.
Leona Lewis
Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n’ roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
Olivia Wilde
Live music is so important. Growing up, it was so important for me to go out and see it, and it inspired me.
Mitch Grassi
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
Tony Visconti
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
Graeme Murphy
There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.
Gloria Gaynor
That’s why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.
Maggie Rogers
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
Adam Ant
I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.
Alex Scott
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
Brian Eno
There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.
Gloria Gaynor
Live music is so important. Growing up, it was so important for me to go out and see it, and it inspired me.
Mitch Grassi
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
We've had the good fortune of performing to live music

We’ve had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.
Tessa Virtue
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
Eric Whitacre
All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it’s actually a very rich period in music.
Howard Shore
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
Alan Jackson
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There’s no acting. I love it.
Jonathan Demme
I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early ’80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.
Lauren Weisberger
That’s why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.
Maggie Rogers