Music Quotes

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

How can German music not be represented by an article?

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.