Music Quotes

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Music should be your escape.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

You are the music while the music lasts.

English music is white - it evades everything.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.