Music Quotes

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Only one music comes out of me.