Music Quotes
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"I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now."
Quote by -Britney Spears
"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier."
Quote by -Britney Spears
"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living, and you put your chips where you think they might do some good."
Quote by -Bruce Springsteen
"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel."
Quote by -Dan Brown
"It was the best show I’d ever seen; it was so tight and choreographed that it seemed to be from another planet, a planet where everyone was incredible."
Quote by -David Byrne
"Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters."
Quote by -David Byrne
"People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes."
Quote by -David Byrne
"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune."
Quote by -Deepak Chopra
"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."
Quote by -Demi Lovato
"...obviously one of the keys for us in music and video is to make sure we have an integrated and strong portable device ... [shrugs] business."
Quote by -Steve Ballmer