Music Quotes
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I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.
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I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
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I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
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Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
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My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
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My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
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I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
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I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation.
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I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.
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And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
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I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.
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I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
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Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.
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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
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I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
