Music Quotes

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I go and see music all the time.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.