Music Quotes

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.