Music Quotes

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.