Music Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music...

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

Music was my first love and companion.

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Music is a form of prayer.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.