Music Quotes

I love Tokio Hotel and their music, their makeup, their hairstyles and their subtlety.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I just want to keep writing music.

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

I write music every day.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.

Country music will never be the same.

I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

It's the way he says my name: like music.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.