Music Quotes

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

I don't like to collect music. I don't want it if only I liked it.

It's good to listen to electronic music when you're stressed out because you will feel a release afterwards.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

Music is a universal language.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Without music, I could not get through.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do......the song is the producer.

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

As I matured, the things that I liked influenced the music I wanted to make.

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.

In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.

In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.