Music Quotes

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.