Music Quotes

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music.

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick.

Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked".

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

The music is not the truth.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Music is just air moving around.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.