Famous Quotes
- I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
- John Mayer on Music
- I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
- Temple Grandin on Music
- I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
- Norah Jones on Music
- I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
- Beth Ditto on Music
- I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
- Steve Martin on Music
- I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
- Robert Plant on Music
- I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
- Katy Perry on Music
- I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
- Patti Smith on Music
- I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
- David Byrne on Music
- I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.
- Manuel Puig on Music
- I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
- Jerry Garcia on Music
- I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
- I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
- Billy Corgan on Music
- I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
- Billy Joel on Music
- I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.
- Faith Evans on Music
- I'm very inspired by past music.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
- David Bowie on Music
- I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
- I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
- I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
- Keith Richards on Music
- I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.
- Jonathan Davis on Music
- I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Music
- I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
- Anthony Hopkins on Music
- I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
- Norah Jones on Music
- I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
- Ani DiFranco on Music
- I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
- I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
- I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
- I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.
- Ashley Tisdale on Music
- I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
- Thom Yorke on Music
- I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.
- Beth Ditto on Music
- I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Music
- I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
- I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
- David Byrne on Music
- I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Music
- I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
- I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
- David Byrne on Music
- 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.
- B. B. King on Music
- I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
- Loretta Lynn on Music
- I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
- Renee Fleming on Music
- I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.
- Cat Stevens on Music
- I've sung other people's music all my life.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler on Music
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau on Music
- If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
- Buddy Holly on Music
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