Music Quotes
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I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.
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I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
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I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.
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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!
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It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.
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When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.
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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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Music is to reflect the artist and their artistry. I’ve been pretty true to that. I do appreciate my fans and I love them for being supportive from the beginning.
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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
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Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between Limp Bizkit and Nirvana - there's a fine line there, and it's terrifying.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
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My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.
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As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
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I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.
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To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
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Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
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I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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I'm just a human whose skill is making music.
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I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.
