Music Quotes

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Music can't change the world.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

I like Lady Gaga's music and I think her fashion is great, but I saw her on a chat show and I wanted to punch her in the face.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.