Music Is Quotes

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.