Music Quotes

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - I slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

Without music in a horror there is actually such a big part missing.

I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

I think music is another language.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

Music? All kinda music. I don't just listen to one thing; I listen to everything.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

I'm not really a music guy.

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.