Music Quotes

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.

I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

I go shopping for jeans, and they're playing shitty music in the store, I just leave. I can't be around music that I hate.

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

I think if people really want music they'll search it out.

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

All that I'm concerned about is that my fans understand & that they like the music.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.