Music Quotes

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

Every language has its own music.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I write emotional music.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.