Music Quotes

I just want to keep writing music.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I write music every day.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

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.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I don't see music as working.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.