Music Quotes
-
Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.
-
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
-
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
-
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
-
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
-
What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
-
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
-
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
-
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
-
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
-
I love music, my followers love music, and I know LiveXLive is the ultimate home for the live music experience. We're going to bring great comedy and great music together like no one else is doing, and we'll have incredible access and resources to do it.
-
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
-
I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
-
I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.
-
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
-
Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.
-
I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
-
Other guys like to go golfing, but music is my hobby.
-
Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.
-
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
-
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.
-
It has come to be known as sub-standard music. When people hear that they immediately shut you off.
-
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
-
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
