Music Quotes
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You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
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My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
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Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
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When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that.
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I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
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Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
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My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
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We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.
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Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
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My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.
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Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!
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With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
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I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.
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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
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Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.
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The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
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At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.
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I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.
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Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
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I've always had a love of country music.
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
