Music Quotes

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

Imagery is like music.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.

I aim to make music for the dancefloor

I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.

Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

I'm not sure what my genre is, and to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of that word. I love all types of music regardless of what box it might fit in.

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.