Music Quotes

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.