Music Quotes

• I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

  

  Avicii
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • Experience

• I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Music
  • Writing

• I don't think I can ever escape from music.

  

  Jason Derulo
  • Music

• I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Justice

• I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • Music
  • Aspect
  • Authentic

• There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• At the beginning, my folks were pretty upset with the whole thing at first, the music, the tattoos - but after observing the music scene I'm in now for a couple of years, they totally get it - they actually love it. They are so proud. My dad actually flew to Japan to see us play. My mom comes to the shows near home in Washington.

  

  Matty Mullins
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  

  Elsa Maxwell
  • Friends
  • Marriage
  • Husband

• YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

  Chad Hurley
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Together

• I love music; it's my passion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Love
  • Passion

• One day, my father brings a cassette. He's showing me this, and he's like, 'Look at this guy, his name is Anthony Santos, like you.' I popped it on and started hearing the songs, the music, and I was like, 'Wow, this sounds great.'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Great
  • Father
  • Guy

• So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Long
  • You

• Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched 'American Idol,' but I think it was nice to be able to show kids, 'Hey, you can be here, too.'

  

  David Archuleta
  • Kids
  • American
  • Age

• If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Understanding

• I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Music

• Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Music
  • Important

• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mistake

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Decision

• I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Song
  • Passion

• I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

  

  Jordan Michael Houston
  • Music
  • Streets
  • Ear

• I think you have a crossover when you are known to a wider audience and a different market. I've been able to sell out stadiums all over the world by doing my music. I'm lucky to be in that list without having done an official crossover. Now, will you hear me doing a little bit of R&B? Sure.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

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