Music Quotes

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has to grab a hold of me, I'm not looking for anything in particular.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.