Music Quotes

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.

You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you.

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowerment… I speak from a very truthful and sincere place…with love

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

The music paled like a candle and went out.

At times I make music, but in private.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.