Music Quotes

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Music is my first love.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.

I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.

I make music for people to feel happy with my music and the people that actually want to support me, that's all I care about. I care about the people that want the music. I make the music for them.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.