Music Quotes

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.

I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

My son always says I like very weird music.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.

I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.