Music Quotes
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People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.
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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
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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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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
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I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.
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Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.
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I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
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God-dang-it, country music is my heart.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.
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Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.
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I love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I'd definitely say it's country-pop music, but it's country first.
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My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.
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I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
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A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.
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My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work exactly - but just this sort of vague aspiration to start some kind of website where people send in their stories or poems, and me or perhaps some other people turn that into music. And then by the end of the year we make a record and actually put it out. Like a band, but the band is actually a combination of the musician and the fan. I think that's a very 21st-century way of doing it.
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Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.
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I feel humble that the legacy of those two bands is still intact. It gives me a thrill when people say our music has influenced them in some way or other.
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Hip-hop music in general kind of revolves around singles, and I appreciate that mindset, but at the same time, I wanted to go beyond that. It's not like I was intending to make a classic record - I mean, I'm always trying to make timeless music, but I really just tried to reference the music that on a road trip you can put in and not have to skip a track.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
