Music Quotes

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

Taeyang's [music] is like hamburgers. He'll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and shrimp burger.

I watched and learned about music as a member of Big Bang. Of course it's important to show my charms as an artist by showing my abilities but that's what our solo activities are for.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

I always been a lover of music and it all started with me trying to make dubplates and I couldn't afford to hire people to do dubplates, so I started doing them myself.

Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

A love song is just a caress set to music.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

My first official music video for "Who Am I." It's getting crazy traffic and a lot of hype. I got sponsored by a company called MATIX because of it.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

I have Van Gogh's ear for music

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.