Music Quotes
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Country's hip; it's cool music.
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I remember I was five or six when Elvis came out, all the girls were going crazy. I listened to his music and always loved the guitar music in the background.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.
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I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.
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I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
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The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
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We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.
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I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.
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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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Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
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There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
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Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.
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I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.
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If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.
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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
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If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
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I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.
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I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivated by, but music and visuals go hand in hand.
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I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
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But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.
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My main beef with what's going on right now is this freaking autotune stuff.. It's really ignorant, I don't even get it..It's like, you know my dog could bark into a microphone and I could get it to sound like Lil' Wayne.
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I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.
