Music Quotes

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

What's really good is African drum music.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Music is my first love.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.