Music Quotes

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

I think music changes and it evolves.

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

Sometimes being a little out of control makes the best music and allows others to blossom as well.

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

I try to record music that people can relate to.

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

Listen to the Music of the Moment, people....Dance and Sing!

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

Everything in life influences my music.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.