Music Quotes

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

It's just difficult to release music constantly while also constantly being on the road.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

I always loved music, but it's not something I thought I was gonna approach on a professional level.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

I don't want to stop bringing out music.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I'm not a very social person. I'm interested in music and I'm obviously tight with my family - my daughter. I'm not at the club hanging out at night. I'm at home making records.

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

I've always mixed my music by myself. Of course, there will always be some complications here and there, but it's never a problem.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.