Music Quotes
-
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
-
We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.
-
I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.
-
Music I do just for me.
-
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
-
I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.
-
Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
-
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
-
I'm very hands-on with my own music.
-
Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.
-
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
-
I don't believe in setlists unless it's with a band I haven't played with before or a situation like that … I've never used a set list. I expect my band, or people playing music with me, to know what the songs are if I start going to the eighth note. They need to know that.
-
One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.
-
Music has its existence on the borderline between meaning and nonsense. That is why most attempts to attribute a specific meaning to a piece of music seem to be beside the point-even when the attribution is authoritative, even when it is made by the composer himself.
-
No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?
-
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
-
'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.
-
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
-
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
-
Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.
-
If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.
-
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
-
Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
-
I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.
