Music Quotes

I love seeing live music.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're given all the time that you need to decide on every single note.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Before we make music, music makes us.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

I know music is subjective.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.