Me Quotes

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

~ Sia

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

~ David Bowie

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

~ Taylor Swift

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

~ John Frusciante

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

~ Amy Lee

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

~ Eric Clapton

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

~ Miles Davis

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

~ Justin Bieber

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

~ Tom Petty

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

~ Tom Petty

For me, music and life are all about style.

~ Miles Davis

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

~ Luciano Pavarotti

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

~ Miles Davis

If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

~ Hans Zimmer

For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

~ Flume

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

~ Chubby Checker

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

~ Paul Mccartney

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.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

~ Cat Stevens

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

~ Charlie Haden

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

~ Morgan Freeman

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

~ Tim Mcgraw

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

~ Waylon Jennings

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.

~ Diana Ross

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

~ Felix Mendelssohn

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

~ Debbie Harry

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

~ Paul Auster

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

~ Pink

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

~ Truman Capote

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

~ Lady Gaga

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

~ Miley Cyrus

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

~ Iggy Pop

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

~ B.o.b

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

~ Kendrick Lamar

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

~ Charley Pride

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

~ Judd Nelson

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

~ Zac Efron

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

~ Faith Evans

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

~ Amy Grant