Music Quotes

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

I've always felt acting is a part of music.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

It's insane that there are actually people listening to my music all over the world, which is amazing.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

Some Elvis music and a good cry always helps.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is "A Little Night Music" and it was when I was in college.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

Music is indeed the Universal Language.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual