Music Quotes

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well.

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.

A lot of the hot music today comes from what's being done in R&B and hip-hop.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.