Music Quotes
“I never try to please others when I make music; There is only one person who has to like what comes out of those speakers and that person is myself!”
Eric Prydz
Swedish House Mafia
There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.
Bryce Dessner
The National
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
Zach Condon
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
Taylor Hanson
Hanson
It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
Prince Royce
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
Charlie Parker
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
Bjork
I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.
Adnan Sami
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
George Strait
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
Michael Bolton
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
Philip Glass
