Music Quotes
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
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I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.
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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
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To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
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The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
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I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real. I'm just saying it how it is - I don't sugar-coat it. If you are an ambitious person, you want to strive for more. I want to do it all.
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Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.
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If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
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My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.
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'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
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When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.
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The music I make, I'm different.
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I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.
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But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
