Time Quotes

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

~ Blake Shelton

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

~ Damon Albarn

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

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

~ John Francis

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

~ Tinashe

The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it's not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international.

~ Nicky Jam

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

~ Isaac Hanson

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

~ Ornette Coleman

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

~ Ronnie Milsap

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

~ Shakira

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.

~ Corey Taylor

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

~ Blake Shelton

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

~ Zoe Saldana

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

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

~ Lil Wayne

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

~ Steve Nash

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

~ Emeril Lagasse

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

~ Mary Lou Williams

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

~ Björk

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.

~ Greg Lake

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

~ Tyrese Gibson

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

~ Lil Wayne

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

~ W. H. Auden

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

~ Jack White

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

~ Jonny Greenwood

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

~ Bob Geldof

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

~ Mickey Hart

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

~ George Gershwin

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

~ Bill Frisell

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

~ Ausonius

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

~ Carol Burnett

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

~ Tycho Brahe

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

~ Brooks Atkinson

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

~ Euripides

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

~ Amy Winehouse

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

~ Mickey Rourke

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

~ Walter Scott

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo