Music Quotes

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

The model of a composer.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

My two great loves are music and horses.

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

As a big music fan, England is an amazing place to go.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.