Music Quotes

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I just want to make good music that, you know, appeals to all people, man. I want to branch out and you know just have a lot of multiplatinum albums.

I was reared on folk music.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.

Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

No regrets, it's always moving forward and feeling like I did the right things for the right reasons. It's good music with good people, that's what I'm about.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.

We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!