Music Quotes

I just make music based on what I believe.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

That's so difficult, to try to deal with every hater. I don't expect people to like my music whatsoever. How I deal with it is, I don't give them fuel.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

I love all kinds of music.

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in the '90s is just unbeatable.

I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.

It just feels like I'm on the right path musically and I'm in the right mindset to continue out my mission in music because I'm not putting myself in a box.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, I guess I like a lot of 70's music.

Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.