Music Quotes

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

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

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

We need music to restore the human spirit

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

I write emotional music.

I love doing concert music.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that.

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.