Music Quotes

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.

There are so many clichés in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.

Most people still steal music.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I was rescued from being a greaser by music.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.