Music Long People Quotes

• Sophie Ellis Bextor / Singer

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

• Lee Konitz / Composer

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

• Tommy Lee / Musician

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

• Dionne Warwick / Singer

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

• Scarface

I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.

• Eminem / Rapper

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

• Grace Potter

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!

• Sam Smith / Singer-Songwriter

I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?

• Jenny Scheinman

Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.

• Jonny Greenwood / Musician

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

• Gary Numan / Singer

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

• Dave Grohl / Musician

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.