Music Quotes
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And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. … It's my job and my vice mixed together. You can't hope for better than that: having your job and your sin commingled.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
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Leaving my home today to go do this. I love my home. My wife, our dogs. But my love of drumming, of making music, is strong enough to pull me away time after time.
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
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The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
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Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
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I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.
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I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
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Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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I don't like talking about music.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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We’ve been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
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The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
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Those who look for contradictions will be amply satisfied. The profession of a performer is full of paradoxes, and he has to learn to live with them. He has to forget himself and control himself; he has to observe the composer's wishes to the letter and create the music on the spot; he has to be part of the music market and yet retain his integrity.
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The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.
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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
