Music Quotes

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

Music is about your feelings.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most important thing in making music for me.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

Life is too short to play bad music

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.