Music Quotes

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

I want my music to do the explaining.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.