Music Quotes

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

You can't touch music, but music can touch you

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

I'm playin' the music I like.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me.

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

My music has always been important regardless of other projects.

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!

There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.

I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.