Music Quotes

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

A song is a poem set to music.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Words are music, really.

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.

Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

I love all kinds of music. Everybody knows that Nas is my favorite lyricist in the universe. I'd love to collaborate with him on something.

[Big Pun] loved the fact that I could sing, everybody around us were rappers. A lot of people didn't know that Pun really, really loved r&b music.

I had to fall back and rethink and get into the studio and listen to real r&b music. This is what I do and this is what I need to do.

I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that.

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.