Music Quotes

For me my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music.

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

There are a million good tunes.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

Music always brings great things and makes me meet amazing people. It's amazing.

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else?

I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.