Music Quotes
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
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You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
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I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Colson Whitehead -
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It’s fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.
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Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.
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Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
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When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.
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Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.
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I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.
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Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.
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There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
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I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.
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I really love music but I've always wanted to act.
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There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
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I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.
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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.
