Music Quotes

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Folk is bare bones music.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.