Music Quotes
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I have my own label which releases some very nice music, it’s called 99 Times out of 10 Records.
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
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There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
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Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.
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I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.
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I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.
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I find her music completely offensive for a start and I'm sure our fans do as well.
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The stress that we with Abilities always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That's our plight, it's ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we're trying to race the world of music itself - just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we're trying to figure out how to top it.
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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My music is inspired by where I am and what I'm feeling at the time. Traveling and meeting new people is also incredibly inspiring to me.
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I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
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If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.
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If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.
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I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
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I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.
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I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends." Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
