People Quotes

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

~ E. W. Howe

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

~ Armin Van Buuren

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

~ Dolly Parton

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

~ Jill Scott

It's very easy for people to put out music.

~ Charlie Puth

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

~ Buddy Guy

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

~ Prince

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

~ Berry Gordy

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

~ Debbie Gibson

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

~ Nat King Cole

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

~ Eddie Izzard

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

~ Mary Kay Ash

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

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

~ Billie Holiday

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

~ Jack White

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

~ Faith Hill

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

~ Noel Gallagher

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

~ Agnes De Mille

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

~ Vaughn Monroe

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

~ Jessye Norman

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

~ Alex Kapranos

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

~ W. H. Auden

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

~ Frank Zappa

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

~ Marvin Hamlisch

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

~ Serj Tankian

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

~ Oscar Wilde

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

~ Brandon Boyd

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

~ Liam Gallagher

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

~ John Frusciante

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

~ Sun Ra

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

~ Michael Stipe

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

~ James Iha

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

~ Lauryn Hill

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

~ Nat King Cole

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

~ Bruce Beresford

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

~ Joe Elliott