Music Quotes
-
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
-
If you love music, than you can play music.
-
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
-
There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
-
The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
-
When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.
-
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
-
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
-
The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
-
In general I’m not a big fan of hip hop, even though I worked with Kanye. I did the Kanye stuff not because I’m a fan, but because for me it’s interesting to make some new music in an old style.
-
Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
-
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
-
That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.
-
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
-
I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'
-
Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.
-
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.
-
I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
-
We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.
-
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
-
I don't listen to my own music at home.
-
All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.
-
I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve.
-
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
