Music Quotes
-
When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'
-
It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.
-
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
-
Music is like a medicine.
-
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
-
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
-
I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.
-
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
-
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
-
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
-
It's an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.
-
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
-
I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.
-
Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.
-
Country's hip; it's cool music.
-
Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.
-
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
-
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
-
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
-
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track.
-
My phone is key. This is because I like listening to music, and often, not travelling with it would be a killer. I also love my bed, but unfortunately I can't travel with it, but if I could I would.
-
I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
-
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
-
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.