Music Quotes

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

I love Country Music but what happened to it?

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.

Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.