Joseph David-Jones Quotes

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

Joseph David-Jones

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Start

• You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Mind
  • You

• Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Long
  • Career

• Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Easy

• You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that's found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. It's about the music but it's also about the story. So thank you guys for loving and reading the story and being as into it and as passionate as I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Music
  • Family
  • Tree

• My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

  

  Pitbull
  • Music

• I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

  

  Diplo
  • Music

• The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'

  

  Keri Russell
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy

• I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?

  

  Sonny Liston
  • People
  • Say
  • Now

• When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

  

  Laura Marano
  • You
  • Feel
  • Audience

• .@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!

  

  Donald Trump
  • May
  • Focus
  • Islamic

• Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

  

  Joseph David-Jones
  • Music
  • Escape