Music Quotes

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.

Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

I am always thinking music.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I just want to make music on the drums.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

I'd love to do music for films.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.