Music Quotes

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

I'm happy. I feel good about music.

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

I never learned to read music.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive. They're really great supporters, and they really love music. I think it's a total outlet for them.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

I'm just a very creative and outgoing person and I love being around people and being around music. It just gives me energy.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.