Music Quotes

I've never seen the devil create music.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.

You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.