Music Quotes

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.

I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

I just never gave anything else much thought after music. I just hope that I'm doing what God intended me to do, and that's all.

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.

I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

I really believe in the power of music.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that and I don't want people to get like that with me.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.