Music Quotes

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

I prefer black music in general.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.

Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It is a fantastic language to help you explore ideas.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

Fashion is just really standing up in the forefront and it's being even mentioned at the same level as the music. I sort of feel like that's where it gets a little sketchy.

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.