Music Quotes
-
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
-
Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.
-
I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.
-
Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.
-
Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.
-
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
-
I believe honesty comes across in music because for most people music isn't just something to dance to.
-
That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.
-
I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.
-
Music is a safe kind of high.
-
Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.
-
For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.
-
If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.
-
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
-
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
-
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
-
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
-
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
-
Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
-
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
-
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
-
I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
-
When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.
-
I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.
