Music Quotes

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

I have always loved music.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

I'm totally within the music. I'M LOST.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.