Music Quotes

I've always treated the music business as a business.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever.

It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

I'm more motivated, and I'm just working harder every single day, so it shows in the music, and it shows in the fan base, it shows in all areas when you're bringing it like that.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

I'm tryna put out the right stuff and just do me and not pay attention to who's hating and who's loving me and make the music I love to make, and make it the best I can.

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

Usually when fans find out about my music for the first time, they're like "Oh this guy's actually for real!" And it's just like yea, you found Waldo.

I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music just got better.

I think vulnerability is one of the most amazing things about music.

I live with all these people, I live with four people that are involved with my music and I call 'em my team and that's what we call GoodLife.

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together.

When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.