Music Quotes
Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.
Action Bronson
When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
Audra McDonald
You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.
Mel Tillis
I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.
Paul Young
Mike and the Mechanics
The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.
Winston Marshall
Mumford & Sons
Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.
Benjamin Clementine
That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.
Alain Macklovitch
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
Lorde
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
Art Alexakis
The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
King Tuff
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
