Music Is Quotes

All rock music is fake news.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Music isn't only a profession.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.

I make music because I like making music.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.