Music Quotes

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.