Music Quotes

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I don't see music as working.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.

I'd love to come to New Zealand!! I've been to Australia a few times - I'm well aware it's not the same country. I've heard from people it's beautiful - great diving, music and no scary animals.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure

I take all of my music seriously and personally.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

There are things in life that I enjoyed before music, so I'm just taking advantage of those things now that I can.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just want to live, experience, be inspired and create music.

Music was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.

I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

I'm just going to continue to do the music that I love.

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.

I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to!

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.