Music Quotes

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I want people to be able to relate to the music, to enjoy the music, in a sense of it being fun and interesting and maybe kind of quirky. I want people to be impacted by the story.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

I didn't really want to give up music.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

People just want honest music.

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

Ive been playing music since I was born.

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

It's going to scare some people, because that's what good music does.

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.