Music Quotes

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

All rock music is fake news.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

Music isn't only a profession.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.