Music Quotes

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

Make music that you truly enjoy and it shows.

Be honest in your music.

I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

There was one part of my life where I would go out every night. Ha-ha, if I missed going out to the club, it was the end of the world. I still like to go out, I love to hear music, I love to dance.

I have people who look after me and help me when I'm out of town. But when I'm at home in LA it's my time and I love to just get in my car, crank up the music and relax.