Music Quotes

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you wanna be.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.