Music Quotes

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Imperial Teen is more like four people who like each other playing music.

I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about.

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear. This kind of music I would like to listen to but I can't hear very often.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

I am mortified by my music choices.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I think music all the time.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

You must own it to play it.

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Faith is the amplifier that will allow the universe to hear and resonate with your music.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.