Music Quotes

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I want to create an experience with my music.

A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black.

I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

I soon forgot storm in music.

I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.

Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

When it comes to music, I'm definitely thinking [about] what I would like to hear.

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.

I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.

I'm not about being sexy. I'm about the music.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.