Music Quotes
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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliott
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One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.
Mohit Chauhan
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
Jill Scott
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I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
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I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be passionate about what you're saying when you're delivering music to people, whether it's through an album or for a live show.
Alissa White-Gluz
The Agonist
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Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.
Rick Derringer
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie
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I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
Courtney Barnett
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
Prince Royce
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Bad music can make you weak.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
Ian MacKaye
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Joseph Lydon
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I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
Leon Russell
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I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know who they are. But, I know that this whole thing started with me making stuff that I got off on, and I've gotta believe that that's how it's going to end, too. That's the only way it can go. There are a lot of artists who have gotten pretty caught up in that. That's why I like the defeatist attitude. Just assume that no one is going to like it and that no one cares, and you'll end up making something that you really like.
Ben Lee
