Music Quotes

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

I think it's quite jarring and exciting when you see someone in the thrall of being completely transported by the music they're sharing with you.

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I like the music. I don't like the business. I get very tired of the travel and moving, constantly moving. But the hour-and-a-half that I'm making music, I'm one of the happiest people on earth.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.