Music Quotes

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you love music, than you can play music.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Live music is better.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Music is the softest cushion in the world.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.