Music Quotes

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.

The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

Make your own music. It can be done.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

I associate creativity with independent music.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

I was born out of classical music.

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?

Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

I describe my music as a mix of juices - Tropicana orange juice and a little bit of off-brand pineapple juice. I guess you could call it generic-brand pineapple-wave.

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.