Music Quotes

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

There’s not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other times I listen to it and I give myself a pat on the back.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I don't even really like rap music.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

I've always been about wanting people to spread my music and share it. This way, it allowed me to adapt in real time.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.