Music Quotes

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

I hear music and my feet just start moving.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

No, I can't do rap music...

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?