Music Quotes

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

Just like styles change, music changes.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

I love recording music.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

Time to the face the music.

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.

I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.

I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.

I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

My music is like my freedom space.

I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.