Music Quotes
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The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
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With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.
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I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
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Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.
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It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.
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The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
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I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
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Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather than does pyrotechnics... and people playing really musically. Music is endlessly fascinating.
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Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.
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As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
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I'm not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That's just giving up. I'm not giving up, ever.
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Love is music, and music is home.
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With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
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Images and music are very connected.
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The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
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When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
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I love pop music. Who doesn't?
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Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
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I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
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I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.
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One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.
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Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
