Music Quotes

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

That is the spirit of the music: to not leave anyone out, to be inclusive.

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

It all boils down to the music. That's what causes longevity.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.

There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

Music careerists from Seattle would typically move to the closest media center, which was L.A.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Focus on your music and not technology.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.