Music Quotes
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Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
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Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I made music a priority every single day.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
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I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
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When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
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I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.
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This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
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I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.
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I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.
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I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.
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I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
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I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.
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Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.
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For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.
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I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
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In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.
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I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
