Music Quotes

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Music is a unifying force.

Nobody owns me or my music.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

reality has too many heads

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

I would rather write 10, 000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.