Music Quotes

I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

I've been surfing once in my entire life and I wasn't terrible at it, but my love for music is like the Hamilton family loves water. I understand it - but I'll stick to music.

I love music. I love going out dancing.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

I love house music. I love all music.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.