Music Quotes

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I'm always listening to music to pump myself up.

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. "Thinking of You" is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at the prom.

I'm just going to do music and when I feel like I've gotten enough music to put an album together then that's when I'm going to do it.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.