Music Quotes

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

I still don't know how to read music.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

I know nothing at all about music.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?