Music Quotes
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I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don’t know how you’ve managed to hang on to it, but you have.” The music was loud, and the people were loud.
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I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.
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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.
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To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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When it comes to melodies, production, and sound in pop music, people try to be formulaic and solely concerned with what's resonant in a way that is so cheap and ugly. It actually just devolves culture, ultimately.
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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.
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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for 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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The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
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Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
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I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.
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I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
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I want to live like music sounds.
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... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that
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Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.
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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
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I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
