Music Quotes
-
Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.
-
I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.
-
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
-
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
-
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
-
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
-
Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
-
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
-
I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
-
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.
-
I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.
-
Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.
-
I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
-
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
-
The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.
-
It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
-
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
-
I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.
-
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
-
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
-
I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.
-
I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.
-
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
-
I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.
