Music Quotes

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.