Music Quotes

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

I love interpreting other people's music.

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Hyun Joong hyung listens to music so loud that the neighbors are telling us to move out.

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Sometimes people just see the overall success and it overshadows our true love for music and how much we love to record. I love to record music and I love to see the reception of it even more!

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.