Music Quotes

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love.

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.

I make music because I like making music.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

The common denominator is a love of music.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed.