Music Quotes

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

Music is so visual now.

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

All God's Chillun got Rhythm.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.

Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.

I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

I don't use old music.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I don't think there is much American music.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.